ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,171, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for video on video overlay" was invented by Roland Kehl (Dubendorf, Switzerland) and Pawel Zuczek (Rudolfstetten, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second video may be overlaid on or inserted in a first video in a non-obstructive manner. A location for the second video within the first video may be determined based on analyzing non-essential locations in sequential frames in the first video. The second video may be selected from a plurality of candidate videos based on parameters of the second video, such as size, duration, conte...