ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,654, issued on March 24, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Detection of amount of judder in videos" was invented by Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland), Blake Sloan (Los Angeles), Mitchel Jacobs (Los Angeles), Scott Labrozzi (Cary, N.C.), Shinobu Hattori (Los Angeles) and Felix Klose (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method receives a video. The method analyzes information for a pixel of a frame in the video to determine a first value and a second value for the pixel. The first value is based on an image structure formed by the pixel in the frame and the second value is b...