US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Jan. 20 for "Classifying segments of media content using closed captioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,038, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Classifying segments of media content using closed captioning" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.), Lakshika Balasuriya (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Chin-Ting Ko (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) retrieving, from a text index, closed captioning repetition data for a segment of a sequence of media content; (ii) generating features using the closed captioning repetition data; (iii) providing the features as input to a classification model, wherein the classification model is configured to output...