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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2007
Stephen C. Hammer, Marietta, GA (US);
Christopher E. Holladay, Marietta, GA (US);
William D. Morgan, Atlanta, GA (US);
Stephen C. Hammer, Marietta, GA (US);
Christopher E. Holladay, Marietta, GA (US);
William D. Morgan, Atlanta, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention generally provides a way to analyze crowd noise to identify 'highlights' or the like. Specifically, an audio stream containing crowd noise from an event (e.g., sporting event, political rally, religious gathering, etc) is captured (e.g., using microphones) and time coded. The audio stream is normalized based on geography and processed to remove undesired artifacts and to identify a set (at least one) of highlights. Based on at least one threshold, at least one highlight is selected from the set of highlights.