ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,584, issued on June 17, was assigned to STAR INDIA PRIVATE Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Method and system for generating smart thumbnails" was invented by Shenglong Lyu (Beijing), Jian Hui (Beijing), Lu Zhang (Beijing), Deming Lu (Beijing) and Tao Xiong (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system (150) for generating smart thumbnails is disclosed. The method includes receiving a thumbnail and metadata in relation to a content stored in a content store (152). The metadata is analyzed to identify a key content element of the content. If the key content element is present in the thumbnail, one or more features related to the k...