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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2022
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Glen Hardin, Charlotte, NC (US);
Eric Manchester, Rockville, MD (US);
TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for thumbnail generation. In one embodiment, a thumbnail stream is generated where one or more bits are assigned to key frames and minimizes the number of bits assigned to delta frames. Each key frame may be used to extract a still image for use in thumbnails during trick mode operation (e.g., fast forward, rewind, pause, or random seek operation). When the encoded video file is given to a Just in Time Packager (JITP), the JITP extracts the image files (via the key frames). Information regarding how to reference these files is stored in generated manifest file and may be reformatted by the JITP to fit the needs of the current product. In a variant, the JITP reformats the image files extracted from the encoded video for operation on a number of devices.