ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,390, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MAGIC LEAP INC. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Word flow annotation" was invented by Jeffrey Scott Sommers (Mountain View, Calif.), Jennifer M. R. Devine (Plantation, Fla.), Joseph Wayne Seuck (Tamarac, Fla.) and Adrian Kaehler (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality (AR) device can be configured to monitor ambient audio data. The AR device can detect speech in the ambient audio data, convert the detected speech into text, or detect keywords such as rare words in the speech. When a rare word is detected, the AR device can retrieve auxiliary information (e.g., a definition) relate...