US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on May 20 for "Selective sound modification for video communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,557, issued on May 20, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Selective sound modification for video communication" was invented by Stefan Marti (Oakland, Calif.), Neeka Mansourian (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Joseph Verbeke (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a communication application selectively modifies sounds associated with a selected location or entity in one or more images. In operation, the communication application receives an image of an environment of a first device and an audio signal associated with the environment. The communication application recei...