US Patent Issued to Warner Bros. Entertainment on April 29 for "Partial frame replacement enabling multiple versions in an integrated video package" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,493, issued on April 29, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Partial frame replacement enabling multiple versions in an integrated video package" was invented by Shaun Lile (Burbank, Calif.) and Tom David Stratton (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple different versions of media content are contained in a single package of audio-video media content, using compression algorithms that reduce storage and bandwidth required for storing multiple full-resolution versions of the media. Portions of individual frames are replaced during playback so that only the pixels that differ between vers...