ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,773, issued on May 6, was assigned to SHENZHEN MICROBT ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for generating video digest and readable storage medium" was invented by Chengtao Zhou (Guangdong, China), Le Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Zuoxing Yang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for generating a video digest, and a readable storage medium are provided. The method is applied to a video acquisition device that includes a hardware unit configured to obtain movement information in real time, the movement information includes speed information and direction informa...