ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,111, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Automated video cropping" was invented by Apurvakumar Dilipkumar Kansara (San Jose, Calif.), Sanford Holsapple (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Arica Westadt (Los Angeles), Kunal Bisla (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Sameer Shah (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, as an input, segmented video scenes, where each video scene includes a specified length of video content. The method may further include scanning the video scenes to identify objects within the video scene and also determining a relative impo...