US Patent Issued to HITACHI on April 21 for "Content-aware AI-assisted video summarization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,939, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Content-aware AI-assisted video summarization" was invented by Rahul Vishwakarma (Berkeley, Calif.), Ravigopal Vennelakanti (San Jose, Calif.), Nam Huyn (Milpitas, Calif.), Masato Tamura (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for summarizing an infrastructure surface inspection video, which can involve processing frames of the infrastructure surface inspection video through a spatial in-frame process configured to conduct feature and text extraction on the frames on detected obse...