Robert D Post

US Patent:

20100107126, Apr 29, 2010

Filed:

Oct 28, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/259553

Inventors:

Andrew Cheng-min Lin - Los Angeles CA, US
Robert Scott Post - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

HULU LLC - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715838

Abstract:

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture for producing one or more thumbnails from a media program comprising video data having a plurality of sequenced images. In an illustrative embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a command to scan the video data to identify a candidate video frame for the thumbnail, accepting a command to select the candidate video frame for the thumbnail, automatically generating a set of candidate thumbnails, the set of candidate thumbnails comprising the selected candidate video frame and video frames temporally proximate the selected candidate video frame, presenting the set of candidate thumbnails for selection, and accepting a selection of one of the candidate thumbnails as the selected thumbnail.

US Patent:

20140123193, May 1, 2014

Filed:

Jan 3, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/147418

Inventors:

- Santa Monica CA, US
Robert A. Post - Marina Del Rey CA, US

International Classification:

H04N 21/4722
H04N 21/482

US Classification:

725 61

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method receiving a request for a media program from a user device. The method then determines a set of visual representations of captions for the media program and determines video information for the media program. Visual representations from the set of visual representations of captions are sent with the video information over a network to the user device where text for the captions has been pre-rendered in the sent visual representations before sending of the visual representations to the user device. Also, the user device is configured to directly render and overlay a visual representation of a caption from the visual representations over a portion of the video information without rendering of the text for caption on the portion of the video information at the user device.