US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "System and method of controlling equipment based on data transferred in-band in video via optically encoded images" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,509, issued on Sept. 16.

"System and method of controlling equipment based on data transferred in-band in video via optically encoded images" was invented by Michael Barnett (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is encoded into one or more optically encoded images. The optically encoded images are then inserted as image data into a video sequence-i.e., in video frames. Data are transmitted in-band within the video, via any conceivable video distribution channel or format. The video may be trans-coded as required-because the data are optically encoded, any video processing that even crudely preserves the frame images w...