ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,889, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Generating personalized digital thumbnails" was invented by Sheng-Hsiang Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tsai-Hsuan Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan), Chiwen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Chun Liu (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a custom thumbnail is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes segmenting an audio file into one or more audio segments based, at least in part, on a respective context associated with each of the one or more audio segments. The computer-implemented method fur...