US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT on May 20 for "Enabling automatic generation of dailies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,520, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Enabling automatic generation of dailies" was invented by Joshua Rizzo (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.) and Phillip Squyres (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing audio and video streams to enable automatic generation of dailies, including: identifying a first time in the audio stream when a sound occurs from closing clapper sticks; identifying a second time in the video stream when there is an image of the clapper sticks closed, wherein the clapper sticks include symbols or patterns applied...