US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 3 for "Method for converting landscape video to portrait mobile layout using a selection interface" (California, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,225, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for converting landscape video to portrait mobile layout using a selection interface" was invented by Brian Mulford (Palos Verdes, Calif.), Nathan Frey (Venice, Calif.), Alexandros Panagopoulos (Leonia, N.J.), Yinquan Hao (Lake Grove, N.Y.) and Yuan Zhang (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods of converting media dimensions. A device may identify a set of frames from a video in a first orientation as belonging to a scene. The device may receive a selected coordinate on a frame of the set of frames for...