US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Methods, systems, and media for synchronizing video streams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,794, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for synchronizing video streams" was invented by Jue Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and James S. Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for synchronizing video streams are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a target video stream and a reference video stream, wherein the target video stream and the reference video stream are two different broadcasts of a program; generating, for the target video stream, a sequence of fingerprints; determining a time shift at which the...