Techniques for automatically extracting compelling portions of a media content item
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12293779
In various embodiments, a clip application computes a set of appearance values for an appearance metric based on shot sequences associated with a media content item. Each appearance value in the set of appearance values indicates a prevalence of a first character in a different shot sequence associated with the media content item. The clip application then performs one or more clustering operations on the shot sequences based on the set of appearance values to generate a first shot…
Systems and methods for correlating speech and lip movement
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266361
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes analyzing, by a speech detection system, a media file to detect lip movement of a speaker who is visually rendered in media content of the media file. The method additionally includes identifying, by the speech detection system, audio content within the media file, and improving accuracy of a temporal correlation of the speech detection system. The method may involve correlating the lip movement of the speaker with the audio content, and…
Systems and methods for splicing targeted content into live broadcast streams with targeted content breaks of unknown placement and duration
Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12262081
The disclosed computer-implemented methods and systems can splice targeted content such as advertisements into a live stream of a real-time event. For example, the methods and systems discussed herein determine targeted content items for splicing into a live stream by generating a computing model of targeted content recommendations. In one or more examples, the computing model generates targeted content recommendations that are specific to a length of a targeted content break, the viewer…
Encoding techniques for optimizing distortion and bitrate
Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12255940
A shot analyzer varies the resolution when generating encoded video sequences for streaming. The shot analyzer generates a first encoded video sequence based on a first resolution and a source video sequence that is associated with a video title. The shot analyzer then determines a first encoded shot sequence from multiple encoded shot sequences included in the first encoded video sequence based on quality metric(s). The first encoded shot sequence is associated with a first shot…
Dynamic topology generation for branching narratives
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12238395
A playback application is configured to dynamically generate topology for an interactive media title. The playback application obtains an initial topology and also collects various data associated with a user interacting with the feature. The playback application then modifies the initial topology, based on the collected data, to generate a dynamic topology tailored to the user. The dynamic topology describes the set of choices available to the user during playback as well as which…
Systems and methods for providing optimized time scales and accurate presentation time stamps
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12231744
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining, for multiple different media items, a current time scale at which the media items are encoded for distribution, where at least two of the media items are encoded at different frame rates. The method then includes identifying, for the media items, a unified time scale that provides a constant frame interval for each of the media items. The method also includes changing at least one of the media items from the current time…
Systems and methods for splicing targeted content into live broadcast streams with targeted content breaks of unknown placement and duration
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12231723
The disclosed computer-implemented methods and systems can splice targeted content such as advertisements into a live stream of a real-time event. For example, the methods and systems discussed herein determine targeted content items for splicing into a live stream by generating a computing model of targeted content recommendations. In one or more examples, the computing model generates targeted content recommendations that are specific to a length of a targeted content break, the viewer…
Techniques for generating a consistent view of an eventually consistent database
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12204521
In various embodiments, a consistency application constructs a consistent view of an eventually consistent database. The consistency application determines multiple backup files that are associated with at least one datacenter included in the eventually consistent database and extracts aggregated data from the backup files. The consistency application performs compaction operation(s) on the aggregated data to generate compacted data. Notably, the aggregated data includes at least two…
Optimizing encoding operations when generating encoded versions of a media title
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12200235
In various embodiments, a sequence-based encoding application partitions a set of shot sequences associated with a media title into multiple clusters based on at least one feature that characterizes media content and/or encoded media content associated with the media title. The clusters include at least a first cluster and a second cluster. The sequence-based encoding application encodes a first shot sequence using a first operating point to generate a first encoded shot sequence. The…
Generalized video deblocking filter
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192533
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for deblocking video frames. The technique includes determining a filter length associated with a boundary between a first block and a second block included in the same video frame. The technique also includes computing a parameter value that minimizes a sum of squares of second derivatives associated with samples from the first block and second block that are adjacent to the boundary. The technique further includes…
Accurate global eventual counting
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
12181995
In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, from a first endpoint device, a first event during a first time period, modifying an event log to include a record associated with the first event, causing a rollup queue to include a request to count a first count value associated with the first event, and generating, in a second time period subsequent to the first time period, a counter value associated with at least the first event based on the rollup queue and…
Display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface
Granted: December 31, 2024
Patent Number:
D1055965
Methods and systems for providing dynamically composed personalized media assets
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177542
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing a media item that includes multiple media item segments that are to be played back in a specific manner. The method may also include generating playgraphs for the media item, where the playgraphs define different playback paths between media item segments. The method may next include selecting a specific playgraph from the generated playgraphs, and then providing the selected playgraph to a playback device. Playback of the…
Techniques for predicting video quality across different viewing parameters
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12167000
In various embodiments, a quality inference application estimates perceived video quality for reconstructed video. The quality inference application computes a set of feature values corresponding to a set of visual quality metrics based on a reconstructed frame, a source frame, a display resolution, and a normalized viewing distance. The quality inference application executes a trained perceptual quality model on the set of feature values to generate a perceptual quality score that…
Configurable access-based cache policy control
Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12166840
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method of receiving a header associated with an object, where the header includes a limit value that specifies a quantity of times the object is to be served from a cache device before revalidation, and a current count value that specifies a number of times that the object has been served since a most-recent revalidation or load, receiving a request for the object from a requesting device, and upon determining…
Platform and architecture for distributing content information
Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12099568
In various embodiments, a content platform receives, from a user device, a request for a web page. In response to receiving the request for the web page, the content platform retrieves one or more page construction items associated with the web page and one or more page content items associated with the web page, wherein each page construction item included in the one or more page construction items indicates a structure of a different element included in the web page and each page…
Stage lighting assembly with perforated layer
Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12098819
The systems herein include a support structure and multiple light sources mounted to the support structure. The light sources are configured to project light onto a recording stage to light a specified video scene that is to be recorded on the recording stage. These systems also include a perforated layer that includes an arrangement of apertures. The perforated layer has an inward face directed toward the lighting sources and an outward face directed toward the recording stage. The…
Systems and methods for streamlining multimedia content acquisition
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12094443
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a client device, a request for multimedia content, where the request includes both a manifest request that includes client identification data and a license request that includes a license challenge. The method may further include validating the received request for multimedia content using the client identification data in the manifest request and generating a manifest response that includes an identification of a…
Techniques for executing serverless functions on media items
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086627
In various embodiments, a serverless function agent determines that a client stub function has been invoked with a first set of arguments in a first execution environment. The serverless function agent then performs one or more operations on a media item that is associated with a first argument included in the first set of arguments to generate a second argument included in a second set of arguments. Notably, the first argument has a first data type and the second argument has a second…
Systems and methods for automatically generating sound event subtitles
Granted: August 27, 2024
Patent Number:
12075187
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include systems and methods for automatically generating sound event subtitles for digital videos. For example, the systems and methods described herein can automatically generate subtitles for sound events within a digital video soundtrack that includes sounds other than speech. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein can automatically generate sound event subtitles as part of an automatic and comprehensive approach that…
