US Patent Issued to Gracenote on June 30 for "System and method to identify programs and commercials in video content via unsupervised static content identification" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,852, issued on June 30, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"System and method to identify programs and commercials in video content via unsupervised static content identification" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (New York) and Arthur Findelair (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining, by a computing system, a mean image of a set of frames of video content; (ii) extracting, by the computing system, a reference template of static content from the mean image; (iii) identifying, by the computing system, the extracted reference template of static content in a frame of the ...