ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,695, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Darabase Canada Ltd. (Toronto).
"Audio synchronisation" was invented by Dominic Sinclair Collins (Guildford, Great Britain), David John Bomphrey (Guildford, Great Britain) and Mark Richard James (Guildford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronising audio content arranged to be played by a second device with video content played by a first device, wherein the second device includes a camera, comprises: capturing at least a portion of the video content with the camera; performing image recognition on the captured video content to identify a set time point in the aud...