US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on May 26 for "Techniques for performing live captioning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,305, issued on May 26, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for performing live captioning" was invented by Cyril Concolato (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a caption encoding application performs captioning while streaming live events. The caption encoding application determines a segment index in response to a triggering event associated with a live event. The caption encoding application computes a caption time interval based on the first triggering event and a caption delay. The caption encoding application retrieves from a database a portion of caption data based o...