ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,581, issued on June 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Audio improvement using closed caption data" was invented by Jeff Calkins (Evergreen, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for improving audio for hearing impaired content consumers. An example method may comprise determining a content asset. Closed caption data associated with the content asset may be determined. At least a portion of the closed caption data may be determined based on a user setting associated with a hearing impairment. Compensating audio comprising a frequency translation associated wit...