ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,372, issued on July 29, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Automatic trailer detection in multimedia content" was invented by Dong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Lezi Wang (Piscataway, N.J.) and Rohit Puri (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing media segments that correspond to respective media items. At least one of the media segments may be divided into discrete video shots. The method may also include matching the discrete video shots in the media segments to corresponding video shots in the corresponding media items according to various matching fa...