ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,943, issued on July 1, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio enhancements based on video detection" was invented by Jan Neerbek (Aarhus, Denmark), Kasper Andersen (Aarhus, Denmark) and Brian Thoft Moth Moller (AAlborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments for implementing audio enhancements based on video detection. An embodiment operates by receiving an audio clip corresponding to a video clip to be output simultaneously. The video clip is classified as belonging to a video category. An enhancement of the audio clip is determined based on crowd-sourced responses to the video c...