US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Oct. 28 for "Identifying and labeling segments within video content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,382, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Identifying and labeling segments within video content" was invented by Amanmeet Garg (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharmishtha Gupta (Fremont, Calif.), Andreas Schmidt (San Pablo, Calif.), Lakshika Balasuriya (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining fingerprint repetition data for a portion of video content, with the fingerprint repetition data including a list of other portions of video content matching the portion of video content and respective reference identif...