US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 24 for "Methods and systems for generating a thumbnail" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,274, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating a thumbnail" was invented by Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided relating to generation of a thumbnail. Display elements for use in a first thumbnail are stored in a database. Metadata relating to the display elements is determined. A contextual parameter relating to a current viewing session is determined. A first display element is selected for use in generating the first thumbnail based on the metadata and the contextual parameter. The first...