ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,716, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Highlight moment detection for slow-motion videos" was invented by Ming Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Chiuman Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for detecting a highlight moment, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The electronic device captures a sequence of images of a field of view with a first frame rate, the sequence of images including at least an initiation of the highlight moment. In response to determining, based on at least a gray centroid of a region of interest (R...