AP Awarded Patent That Makes Filing Video From the Field Easier
This morning, the AP announced that a patent was awarded for a method of “automatic selection of encoding parameters for transmission of media objects.”
Yes, that’s a mouth-full.
Basically, the patent is for the technology that makes AP’s SNAPfeed application work. SNAPfeed is an add-on to AP’s ENPS system which is used in 700 newsrooms and by more than 52,000 journalists around the world.
SNAPfeed, which was developed at the beginning of the second Gulf War, translates a field reporter’s answers into a series of actions which then compresses video and sends it back to a newsroom to meet a deadline.
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