US Patent Issued to Roku on Sept. 8 for "Video system with scene-based object insertion feature" (California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,352, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Video system with scene-based object insertion feature" was invented by Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining video that depicts an area across multiple frames of the video, wherein the area is part of a scene of the video, and wherein the area is suitable for having an object inserted therein; (ii) detecting the area within the obtained video and determining area characteristic data associated with the detected area;...