ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,186, issued on July 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Event information in a timed metadata track" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for receiving media data. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that receives a timed metadata track of a plurality of segments including a plurality of metadata samples. A duration of each of the plurality of segments is equal to a duration of a metadata sample included in the respective segment. A correct timing of each of...