ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,485, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Content aware graphical subtitles" was invented by Hooman Mahyar (Mercer Island, Wash.), James C. Willeford (Seattle), Arjun Cholkar (Bothell, Wash.), Xinyu Li (Sammamish, Wash.) and Zhikang Zhang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for context aware graphical subtitles. Techniques described herein may involve determining a representation for a graphical subtitle. The graphical subtitles may have various customizable properties that allow for creative expression. Representations of graphical subtitles may be det...