US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 30 for "Automatic in-game subtitles and closed captions" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,413, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic in-game subtitles and closed captions" was invented by Wei Liang (Markham, Canada), Ilia Blank (Markham, Canada), Patrick Fok (Markham, Canada), Le Zhang (Markham, Canada) and Michael Schmit (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for a gaming overlay application to provide automatic in-game subtitles and/or closed captions for video game applications. The overlay application accesses an audio stream and a video stream generated by an executing game appl...