US Patent Issued to Gracenote on July 1 for "Selection of video frames using a machine learning predictor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,157, issued on July 1, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Selection of video frames using a machine learning predictor" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.) and Casper Lutzhoft Christensen (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods of selection of video frames using a machine learning (ML) predictor program are disclosed. The ML predictor program may generate predicted cropping boundaries for any given input image. Training raw images associated with respective sets of training master images indicative of cropping characteristics for the training raw image may be input to t...