US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "Online speaker diarization using local and global clustering" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,776, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Online speaker diarization using local and global clustering" was invented by Myungjong Kim (Milpitas, Calif.), Taeyeon Ki (Milpitas, Calif.), Vijendra Raj Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.), Sungjae Park (Seoul, South Korea), SeungBeom Ryu (Suwon, South Korea) and Hyuk Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining at least a portion of an audio stream containing speech activity. At least the portion of the audio stream includes multiple segments. The method also includes, for each of the segments, generatin...