ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,147, issued on April 22.
"Techniques for optimizing the display of videos" was invented by Guy Ravine (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for optimizing the display of videos. During operation, a computing device receives a video stream to be displayed. The computing device determines a preferred orientation for the video stream, determines a present orientation for the computing device, and determines a mismatch between the preferred orientation and the present orientation. The computing device adjusts the video stream while displaying the video stream on the display. As the vid...