US Patent Issued to 2G Digital Post on June 2 for "System and methods for positioning captioning in a video file" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,656, issued on June 2, was assigned to 2G Digital Post Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"System and methods for positioning captioning in a video file" was invented by William Bingham (Burbank, Calif.), Miko Filppula (Burbank, Calif.), Jordan Jacobs (Burbank, Calif.) and Fernando Vazquez (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatic positioning of a closed caption in an image frame to avoid overlapping with text or graphics in the image is disclosed. A video event file includes a time code and a position of an object on at least one frame of the video file and a caption event file that includes a time code a...