US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, AT&T Mobility II on June 3 for "Leveraging visual data to enhance audio reception" (Georgia, Alaska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,663, issued on June 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Leveraging visual data to enhance audio reception" was invented by Zachary Cleigh Meredith (Eagle River, Alaska), Peter Hardie (Cumming, Ga.) and Sheldon Kent Meredith (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method includes calculating a signal to noise ratio of a captured audio stream, determining that the signal to noise ratio of the captured audio stream is lower than a predefined threshold, acquiring visual data of a source of the captured audio stream in response to the determining that the ...