US Patent Issued to Playable on Feb. 18 for "System and method for algorithmic editing of video content" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,747, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Playable Pty Ltd (Drummoyne, Australia).

"System and method for algorithmic editing of video content" was invented by Robert Andrew Hitching (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Ashley John Wing (San Francisco) and Phillip John Wing (Drummoyne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for algorithmically editing digital video content is disclosed. A video file containing source video is processed to extract metadata. Label taxonomies are applied to extracted metadata. The labelled metadata is processed to identify higher-level labels. Identified higher-level labels are store...