“EXCITING,” “uninteresting” and “not exciting” don’t seem like technical terms. But they show up a lot in United States patent application No. 20,050,160,457, titled “Annotating Programs for Automatic Summary Generation.” It seems to be about baseball. The inventors have apparently come up with software that can detect the portions of a baseball broadcast that contain what they call “excited speech,” as well as hits (what I call “excited ball”) and automatically compile those portions into a highlights reel.
If the patent is granted, after a review process that is likely to take three years, it will be assigned to the inventors’ employer, Microsoft.
Link: tuscaloosanews
