Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Layne Edwards
Jeffrey Layne Edwards has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9390755Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: YesVideo, Inc.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Publication number: 20150104154Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Patent number: 8867894Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: YesVideo, Inc.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Patent number: 8630529Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: YesVideo, Inc.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Publication number: 20130294750Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Publication number: 20100115410Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2010Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: YESVIDEO, INC.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Patent number: 7668438Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: YesVideo, Inc.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Patent number: 6882793Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2000Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: YesVideo, Inc.Inventors: Sai-Wai Fu, Hon Pun Sit, Subutai Ahmad, Sadie Louise Honey, Adwait Ullal, Jeffrey Layne Edwards
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Patent number: 6721361Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting a scene transition in digitized video data. The method includes determining if a gradual transition is detected in the video data that ends with a current frame based at least on the current frame and one or more previous frames in the digitized video data. The gradual transition has a length. The method includes comparing the gradual transition to a synthetically produced gradual transition spanning a same length and generated from starting and ending frames associated with the detected gradual transition and marking the detected gradual transition only if the detected gradual transition is sufficiently similar to the synthetically produced gradual transition.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: YesVideo.ComInventors: Michele May Covell, Subutai Ahmad, Jeffrey Layne Edwards