US Patent Issued to SAMBA TV on Aug. 25 for "System and method for channel change detection and overlay detection for a broadcast output" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,157, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMBA TV INC. (San Francisco).

"System and method for channel change detection and overlay detection for a broadcast output" was invented by Christopher Squire (San Francisco) and David Harrison (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of channel change detection and overlay detection for a broadcast output, the computer-implemented method comprises providing a broadcast stream for a display; dividing the display into one or more regions, and selecting at least one of the one or more regions; based on the selected one or more regions, determining a first conte...