ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,920, issued on May 13, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Audio transitions when streaming audiovisual media titles" was invented by Mark Watson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback application is configured to analyze audio frames associated with transitions between segments within a media title to identify one or more portions of extraneous audio. The playback application is configured to analyze the one or more portions of extraneous audio and then determine which of the one or more corresponding audio frames should be dropped. In doing so, the playback application can analyze a topology associa...