Patents by Inventor Robert A. Post

Robert A. Post 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).

  • Overlay of visual representations of captions on video
    Patent number: 9307292
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receiving a request for a media program from a user device. The method then determines a set of visual representations of captions for the media program and determines video information for the media program. Visual representations from the set of visual representations of captions are sent with the video information over a network to the user device where text for the captions has been pre-rendered in the sent visual representations before sending of the visual representations to the user device. Also, the user device is configured to directly render and overlay a visual representation of a caption from the visual representations over a portion of the video information without rendering of the text for caption on the portion of the video information at the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Baptiste Coudurier, Robert A. Post
  • Overlay of Visual Representations of Captions on Video
    Publication number: 20140123193
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receiving a request for a media program from a user device. The method then determines a set of visual representations of captions for the media program and determines video information for the media program. Visual representations from the set of visual representations of captions are sent with the video information over a network to the user device where text for the captions has been pre-rendered in the sent visual representations before sending of the visual representations to the user device. Also, the user device is configured to directly render and overlay a visual representation of a caption from the visual representations over a portion of the video information without rendering of the text for caption on the portion of the video information at the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Baptiste Coudurier, Robert A. Post