US Patent Issued to Google on July 21 for "Highlight video generation" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,876, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Highlight video generation" was invented by Wei Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Li Wei (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michelle Chen (Sommerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a video having image frames, and determining, for each respective image frame, a corresponding frame content score based on a visual content thereof. The method also includes selecting, from the image frames, a plurality of video clips, where each respective video clip includes a plurality of consecutive image frames and is selected based on the corresponding ...