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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2014
3play Media, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Joshua Miller, Charlestown, MA (US);
Anatole Khesin, Somerville, MA (US);
Christopher E. Johnson, Belmont, MA (US);
Roger S. Zimmerman, Wellesley, MA (US);
Christopher S. Antunes, Somerville, MA (US);
Jeremy E. Barron, Boston, MA (US);
Andrew H. Schwartz, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
3Play Media, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
In at least one embodiment, a system for positioning captions upon video images of a media file is provided. The system includes a memory storing at least one caption frame associated with at least one video frame, at least one processor in data communication with the memory, and a caption engine component executable by the at least one processor. The caption engine component is configured to determine that at least one region of the at least one video frame is free of identified content and position the at least one caption frame within the at least one region.