ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,779, issued on May 6, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Techniques for automatically extracting compelling portions of a media content item" was invented by Apurvakumar Dilipkumar Kansara (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a clip application computes a set of appearance values for an appearance metric based on shot sequences associated with a media content item. Each appearance value in the set of appearance values indicates a prevalence of a first character in a different shot sequence associated with the media content item. The clip application then performs one or more cluster...