US Patent Issued to Roku on Jan. 13 for "Speaker-identification model for controlling operation of a media player" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,477, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Speaker-identification model for controlling operation of a media player" was invented by Frank Maker (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining, by a media player of a media presentation system, an audio signal, where the audio signal includes a voice command is obtained using a microphone of the media presentation system; (ii) identifying, by the media player, which of multiple speakers of a household uttered the voice command using the audio signal and a speaker-identification model; (iii) performin...