US Patent Issued to DTS on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for dialogue understandability assessment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,676, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DTS Inc. (Calabasas, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for dialogue understandability assessment" was invented by David Cortes Provencio (Calabasas, Calif.), Martin Walsh (Calabasas, Calif.), Brian Slack (Calabasas, Calif.) and Edward Stein (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: obtaining a mixed soundtrack that includes dialogue mixed with non-dialogue sound; converting the mixed soundtrack to comparison text; obtaining reference text for the dialogue as a reference for intelligibility of the dialogue; determining a measure of intelligibility of the dialogue of the ...