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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Behram Mario DaCosta, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/14 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04N 7/15 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02087 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various aspects of a method and system to process audio data are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the method includes identification of a source-of-interest (SOI), via a user interface (UI), when video content is played back. The SOI is identified based on one or more parameters. An audio portion of the identified SOI is selectively enhanced when the video content is played back.