Patents by Inventor Simon R. Hayhurst

Simon R. Hayhurst has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for time synchronized script metadata
    Patent number: 8825488
    Abstract: A method includes receiving script data including script words for dialogue, receiving audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the dialogue, wherein the audio data includes timecodes associated with dialogue words, generating a sequential alignment of the script words to the dialogue words, matching at least some of the script words to corresponding dialogue words to determine hard alignment points, partitioning the sequential alignment of script words into alignment sub-sets, wherein the bounds of the alignment sub-subsets are defined by adjacent hard-alignment points, and wherein the alignment subsets includes a sub-set of the script words and a corresponding sub-set of dialogue words that occur between the hard-alignment points, determining corresponding timecodes for a sub-set of script words in a sub-subset based on the timecodes associated with the sub-set of dialogue words, and generating time-aligned script data including the sub-set of script words and their corresponding timecodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Jerry R. Scoggins, II, Walter W. Chang, David A. Kuspa, Charles E. Van Winkle, Simon R. Hayhurst
  • Method and Apparatus for Time Synchronized Script Metadata
    Publication number: 20130124212
    Abstract: A method includes receiving script data including script words for dialogue, receiving audio data corresponding to at least a portion of the dialogue, wherein the audio data includes timecodes associated with dialogue words, generating a sequential alignment of the script words to the dialogue words, matching at least some of the script words to corresponding dialogue words to determine hard alignment points, partitioning the sequential alignment of script words into alignment sub-sets, wherein the bounds of the alignment sub-subsets are defined by adjacent hard-alignment points, and wherein the alignment subsets includes a sub-set of the script words and a corresponding sub-set of dialogue words that occur between the hard-alignment points, determining corresponding timecodes for a sub-set of script words in a sub-subset based on the timecodes associated with the sub-set of dialogue words, and generating time-aligned script data including the sub-set of script words and their corresponding timecodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Jerry R. Scoggins, II, Walter W. Chang, David A. Kuspa, Charles E. Van Winkle, Simon R. Hayhurst