ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,542, issued on June 17, was assigned to INSCAPE DATA INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"System and method for continuous media segment identification" was invented by W. Leo Hoarty (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a means to identify unknown media programming using the audio component of said programming. The invention extracts audio information from the media received by consumer electronic devices such as smart TVs and TV set-top boxes then conveys said information to a remote server means which will in turn identify said audio information of unknown identity by way of testing against a database of k...