ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,155, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Search-based navigation of media content" was invented by Curtis Calhoun (El Sobrante, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided to allow for improved media content navigation. Metadata such as closed captioning, social media content, and tags associated with various media segments are analyzed to allow identification of particular entities depicted in the various media segments. Image recognition and audio recognition algorithms can also be performed to further identify entities or validate results from the analysis of metadata....