ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,470, issued on May 6, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).
"Method, apparatus and system for facilitating navigation in an extended scene" was invented by Anthony Laurent (Vignoc, France), Vincent Alleaume (Pace, France) and Maximilien Bellot (Le Relecq-Kerhuon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for facilitating navigation toward a region of interest in an extended scene of video content include determining a timeline including information regarding at least one region of interest in the video content and displaying, in a portion of the video content currently being displayed...