US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on March 18 for "System and method for summarizing a multimedia content item" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,036, issued on March 18, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"System and method for summarizing a multimedia content item" was invented by Inderjeet Mani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia content item is summarized based on its audio track and a desired compression budget. The audio track is extracted and processed by an automatic speech recognizer to obtain a time-aligned text transcript. The text-transcript is partitioned into a plurality of segment sequences. An informativeness score based on a salience score and a diversity score is computed for each of the segments. A coherence score is als...