US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 29 for "Method and systems for creating viewing impressions during trick play operations" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,741, issued on July 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Method and systems for creating viewing impressions during trick play operations" was invented by Brian Gray (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of the disclosure relate to a system and methods for creating a viewing impression that can comprise selecting a video frame from a content item based on interest or value in the video frame. Another version of the content, such as a trick file, can be created by inserting one or more copies of the video frame, for example, adjacent to one another."

The patent was filed on Jan. 11...