US Patent Issued to STATS on Jan. 13 for "Video processing for enabling sports highlights generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,014, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Video processing for enabling sports highlights generation" was invented by Mihailo Stojancic (San Jose, Calif.), Warren Packard (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dennis Kanygin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more highlights of a video stream may be identified. The highlights may be segments of a video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest to one or more users. According to one method, at least a portion of the video stream may be stored. The portion of the video stream may be compared with templates of a template ...