US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on July 15 for "Synthetic emotion in continuously generated voice-to-video system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,750, issued on July 15, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Synthetic emotion in continuously generated voice-to-video system" was invented by Seth Jacob Rothschild (Littleton, Mass.) and Alex Robbins (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes collecting an audio segment that includes audio data generated by a user, analyzing the audio data to identify an emotion expressed by the user, computing start and end indices of a video segment, selecting video data that shows the emotion expressed by the user, using the video data and the start and end indices of the video segment to ...