US Patent Issued to Google on July 14 for "Determining watch time loss regions in media content items" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,179, issued on July 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining watch time loss regions in media content items" was invented by Wenbo Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kartikey Gupta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining watch time loss regions in media content items. In one aspect, features for a video are input into a trained model that is trained to output watch time loss regions. The trained model is trained using labels corresponding to known watch time loss regions in training v...