US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 14 for "Audiobook visual aid assistance" (Canadian, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,420, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Audiobook visual aid assistance" was invented by Yang Liang (Beijing), Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa), Manjunath Ravi (Georgetown, Texas), Ravithej Chikkala (Pflugerville, Texas) and Su Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically generating, correlating, and presenting visual content along with an audio stream associated with an audiobook is provided. The method may further include, in response to receiving an audio stream, automatically segmenting the audio stream into audio segments. The method may also include ...