ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,716, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for automatic formatting of images for media assets based on user profile" was invented by Aaron Peter Blohowiak (Belmont, Calif.), Walter R. Klappert (North Hollywood, Calif.), Michael R. Nichols (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Olivier Chalouhi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for personalizing images that correspond to a media asset identifier by using user profile information. As an example, the television series "Community" has several actors, such as Joel McHale, Chevy...