US Patent Issued to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING on May 20 for "Optimized ad placement based on automated video analysis and deep metadata extraction" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,440, issued on May 20, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Optimized ad placement based on automated video analysis and deep metadata extraction" was invented by Basil Badawiyeh (Parker, Colo.), Vipul Patel (Great Falls, Va.) and Gary Schanman (Cherry Hills Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an exemplary method for dynamic advertising insertion includes obtaining a video program comprising a sequence of segments; extracting metadata describing at least a specific one of the segments of the video program; based at least in part on the extracted metadata describing the specific s...