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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2017
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventor:

Brian Enigma, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/186 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/44 (2014.01); H04N 19/625 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/186 (2014.11); H04N 19/44 (2014.11); H04N 19/625 (2014.11);
Abstract

Timecode is encoded in video using colored regions of pixels. Pixels in adjacent regions in frames of a video are color-coded to encode timecode. For example, two adjacent regions might both be colored red to encode the numeral '0.' As another example, two adjacent regions might be colored red and purple, respectively, to encode the numeral '1.' The regions can be the same size as a macroblock (e.g. 16×16 pixels) used by a video encoder and aligned to macroblock boundaries for efficient encoding. The colors of the adjacent regions can be decoded to obtain the timecode. The timecode might then be burned into frames of the video, displayed non-destructively over the video, or used in another manner.


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