ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,204, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods of providing content segments with transition elements" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Srikanth Channapragada (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining transition scenes in content and playing back transition scenes as overlays over one or more adjacent scenes. Transition scenes (also referred to as "pause scenes") are slow-moving scenes, with minimal activity or characters, usually surrounded by two faster paced scenes, that may bore certain viewers such a...