US Patent Issued to Roku on Dec. 23 for "Customization of media content with an animated background" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,937, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Customization of media content with an animated background" was invented by Mehul Sanghavi (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Bruza (Los Gatos, Calif.), Saket Kumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Matthieu Chamik (Sebastopol, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for dynamically generating media content with an animated background based on contextual data. An example method can include receiving media content including a sequence of video frames. The method can include steps for determining a context associated with the media c...