Patents by Inventor Geoff Hunter Donaldson

Geoff Hunter Donaldson 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: 10582125
    Abstract: A video capture device may include multiple cameras that simultaneously capture video data. The video capture device and/or one or more remote computing resources may stitch the video data captured by the multiple cameras to generate stitched video data that corresponds to 360° video. The remote computing resources may apply one or more algorithms to the stitched video data to identify one or more frames that depict content that is likely to be of interest to a user. The video capture device and/or the remote computing resources may generate one or more images from the one or more frames, and may send the one or more images to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross David Roessler, Matthew Alan Townsend, Yinfei Yang, Jim Oommen Thomas, Deon Poncini, William Evan Welbourne, Geoff Hunter Donaldson, Paul Aksenti Savastinuk, Cheng-Hao Kuo
  • Patent number: 10319410
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for generating an edit decision list used to render a video summarization. The system may determine a structure indicating a pacing and a sequence of video clips included in the video summarization. The system may determine weighted priority metrics for a plurality of video clips, may identify first video clips having a weighted priority metric above a first threshold and may include the first video clips in the video summarization. The system may determine similarity scores for the plurality of video clips, identify second video clips having a weighted priority metric below the first threshold but above a second threshold and a similarity score below a third threshold and may include a portion of the second video clips in the video summarization. The system may determine layouts, apply special effects and transitions and synchronize music with the video summarization based on a theme and annotation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Alan Townsend, Peter Van Tuyl Bentley, Gabrielle Halberg, Bryan Harris, Geoff Hunter Donaldson