US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for automatic aspect ratio adjustment for video content" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,571, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for automatic aspect ratio adjustment for video content" was invented by Rohun Tripathi (Seattle) and Baris Gecer (Post, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automatic aspect ratio adjustment for video content. The system receives video content formatted in a first aspect ratio that is desired to be converted into a different aspect ratio. The video content is separated into segments, with each segment representing a different camera cut. A representative video frame from each segment is select...