ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,587, issued on June 24, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).
"Automated video segmentation" was invented by Konstantinos Antonio Dimitriou (San Francisco) and Amanmeet Garg (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automated video segmentation are disclosed. A sequence of video frames having video segments of contextually-related sub-sequences may be received. Each frame may be labeled according to segment and segment class. A video graph may be constructed in which each node corresponds to a different frame, and each edge connects a different pair of nodes, and is associated with a time betwee...