Patents by Inventor Ranjith Kumar Shetty

Ranjith Kumar Shetty 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).

  • Machine-assisted translation for subtitle localization
    Patent number: 11636273
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for generating translation suggestions. The technique includes receiving a sequence of source-language subtitle events associated with a content item, where each source-language subtitle event includes a different textual string representing a corresponding portion of the content item, generating a unit of translatable text based on a textual string included in at least one source-language subtitle event from the sequence, translating, via software executing on a machine, the unit of translatable text into target-language text, generating, based on the target-language text, at least one target-language subtitle event associated with a portion of the content item corresponding to the at least one source-language subtitle event, and generating, for display, a subtitle presentation template that includes the at least one target-language subtitle event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.
    Inventors: Ballav Bihani, Matthew James Rickard, Marianna Semeniakin, Ranjith Kumar Shetty, Allison Filemyr Smith, Patrick Brendon Pearson, Sameer Shah
  • MACHINE-ASSISTED TRANSLATION FOR SUBTITLE LOCALIZATION
    Publication number: 20200394271
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for generating translation suggestions. The technique includes receiving a sequence of source-language subtitle events associated with a content item, where each source-language subtitle event includes a different textual string representing a corresponding portion of the content item, generating a unit of translatable text based on a textual string included in at least one source-language subtitle event from the sequence, translating, via software executing on a machine, the unit of translatable text into target-language text, generating, based on the target-language text, at least one target-language subtitle event associated with a portion of the content item corresponding to the at least one source-language subtitle event, and generating, for display, a subtitle presentation template that includes the at least one target-language subtitle event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ballav Bihani, Matthew James Rickard, Marianna Semeniakin, Ranjith Kumar Shetty, Allison Filemyr Smith, Patrick Brendon Pearson