Patents by Inventor CLAYTON ELLIS MELLINA

CLAYTON ELLIS MELLINA 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).

  • Patent number: 10706889
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selective content insertion into areas of media objects are provided. For example, a media object (e.g., an image or video), is selected for composition with content, such as where a message, interactive content, a hyperlink, or other types of content is overlaid or embedded into the media object to create a composite media object. The content is added into an area of the media object that is selectively identified to reduce occlusion and/or improve visual cohesiveness between the content and the media object (e.g., added to an area with a similar or complimentary color, having an adequate size with spare amounts of visual features such as a soccer player, a ball, or other entity, etc.). In this way, the content may be add into the area of the media object to create a composite media object to provide to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Oath Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Thomée, Ioannis Kalantidis, Clayton Ellis Mellina, Simon Osindero
  • Publication number: 20180012630
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for selective content insertion into areas of media objects are provided. For example, a media object (e.g., an image or video), is selected for composition with content, such as where a message, interactive content, a hyperlink, or other types of content is overlaid or embedded into the media object to create a composite media object. The content is added into an area of the media object that is selectively identified to reduce occlusion and/or improve visual cohesiveness between the content and the media object (e.g., added to an area with a similar or complimentary color, having an adequate size with spare amounts of visual features such as a soccer player, a ball, or other entity, etc.). In this way, the content may be add into the area of the media object to create a composite media object to provide to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: BART THOMÉE, IOANNIS KALANTIDIS, CLAYTON ELLIS MELLINA, SIMON OSINDERO