ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,768, issued on May 20, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).
"Video processing for embedded information card localization and content extraction" 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: "Metadata for one or more highlights of a video stream may be extracted from one or more card images embedded in the video stream. The highlights may be segments of the video stream, such as a broadcast of a sporting event, that are of particular interest. According to one method, video frames of the video stream are stored. One or more ...