US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Dec. 2 for "Client-side decoding and playout at channel changes" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,945, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Client-side decoding and playout at channel changes" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for generation of a smooth, engaging transition from one media source to another or from one portion of a media source to another portion of the media source. In response to a request to change display of content from a first source to a second source, a first decodable frame of the second source is determined before completion of decoding a first segment of the second source. During the decoding of...