US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 13 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for selecting/generating visual representations of media content" (District Of Columbia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,984, issued on May 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for selecting/generating visual representations of media content" was invented by Ehsan Younessian (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content items may be represented in a listing by one or more thumbnails containing images from the content items. The images of a content item may be processed to recognize persons and/or objects, and frames of the content item may be selected based on interest values of the recognized persons and/or objects. For example, frames may be selected based on having uncommon (rar...