US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Techniques for generating portrait aspect ratio videos" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,000, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Techniques for generating portrait aspect ratio videos" was invented by Minmin Shen (Kirkland, Wash.), Kewen Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Anne Thanh Thuy Ho (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to generating a portrait aspect ratio video from a landscape aspect ratio video. The techniques can include a content editing engine identifying a first frame of a first shot of a landscape video and determining a plurality of objects in the first frame. The content editing engine can identify a primary subject of t...