US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Nov. 11 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for dual-ended media intelligence" (Chinese, Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,500, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for dual-ended media intelligence" was invented by Yanning Bai (Beijing), Mark William Gerrard (Rozelle, Australia), Richard Han (Beijing) and Martin Wolters (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding audio content comprises performing a content analysis of the audio content, generating classification information indicative of a content type of the audio content based on the content analysis, encoding the audio content and the classification inform...