ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,113, issued on July 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Systems, methods, and devices for determining an introduction portion in a video program" was invented by Ehsan Younessian (Washington), Faisal Ishtiaq (Plainfield, Ill.), Anthony Braskich (Kildeer, Ill.) and Benjamin Spier (Silver Spring, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining an introduction portion in a video program are described herein. A method may determine first and second hard-matching pairs of video segments in first and second video content such that video fingerprints of the first har...