ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,967, issued on March 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Content audio adjustment" was invented by Sarah Friant (Philadelphia), Colleen Szymanik (Philadelphia) and Myra Einstein (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for optimizing user content consuming experience by recognizing and classifying different sounds while a user views a program. The system may have or may access information related to the program audio being presented, enabling it to distinguish between conversations occurring in the program audio and conversations between users in t...