US Patent Issued to Video Notebook on March 31 for "Apparatus and methods for visual summarization of videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,011, issued on March 31, was assigned to Video Notebook Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for visual summarization of videos" was invented by Michael Lanza (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Eran Steinberg (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "generally comprises obtaining one or more images from the video as the video is played, locating a presence of a shape or text from each of the one or more images, determining whether the shape or text corresponds to a prior shape or text from a prior base image, determining whether each of the one or more images comprises a corresponding slide, presenting the one or more images ...