ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,865, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video-derived audio processing" was invented by Sunil Bharitkar (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Seongnam Oh (Irvine, Calif.) and Carlos Tejeda Ocampo (Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes creating, during content production, an audio object and metadata associated with the audio object based on a motion vector analysis of an object in one or more image frames in a video. The method can include, during the content production, inserting the audio object and the ...