ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,477, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Adjusting audible area of avatar's voice" was invented by Meng Chai (Shanghai), Dan Zhang (Shanghai), Yuan Jie Song (Shanghai), Yu Li (Beijing), Wen Ting Su (Beijing) and Xiao Feng Ji (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adjusting an audible area of an avatar's voice is provided. The present invention may include receiving, at a microphone, a source audio; creating a received audio; calculating, by a generative model, a voice propagation distance of a...