ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,698, issued on March 24, was assigned to OPENTV INC. (San Francisco).
"Multimedia focalization" was invented by Eunsook An (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations are directed to methods and systems for individualized multimedia navigation and control including receiving metadata for a piece of digital content, where the metadata comprises a primary image and text that is used to describes the digital content; analyzing the primary image to detect one or more objects; selecting one or more secondary images corresponding to each detected object; and generating a data structure for the digital conte...