ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,382, issued on June 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for identifying music in content" was invented by Jee Hyun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Hyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye Mi Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong Seok Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Hyuck Im (Daejeon, South Korea) and Won Young Yoo (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for identifying music in a content, The present invention includes extracting and storing a fingerprint of an original audio in an audio fi...