US 10,257,570 B2Granted

Fingerprint layouts for content fingerprinting

AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC

InventorJuikun Chen

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Abstract

A method is disclosed for identifying the media content. The method includes receiving fingerprint media content from a content provider to obtain a first set of fingerprints, the first set of fingerprints including a first subset of fingerprints in a first fingerprint layout and a second subset of fingerprints in a second fingerprint layout. The method can include receiving a second set of fingerprints for media content displayed on the electronic device, the second set of fingerprints comprising a third subset of fingerprints in the first fingerprint layout and a fourth subset of fingerprints in the second fingerprint layout. The method can include matching a first fingerprint in the first subset of fingerprints to a second fingerprint in the third subset of fingerprints or a third fingerprint in the second subset of fingerprints to a fourth fingerprint in the fourth subset of fingerprints in order to identify the media content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

memory;
and
a processing device coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device is configured to execute an automatic content recognition (ACR) system at a television (TV), the ACR system is configured to:
receive a first set of fingerprints of media content from a media content provider, each fingerprint of the first set of fingerprints based on pixel luminance, the first set of fingerprints comprising a first fingerprint corresponding to a first fingerprint layout and a second fingerprint corresponding to a second fingerprint layout receive frames of media content displayed on the TV;
fingerprint each frame of the media content displayed on the TV based on pixel luminance to obtain a second set of fingerprints, the second set of fingerprints comprising a third fingerprint corresponding to a first fingerprint layout and a fourth fingerprint corresponding to a second fingerprint layout;
match at least one of the first fingerprint or the second fingerprint of the first set of fingerprints to at least one of the third fingerprint or the fourth fingerprint of the second set of fingerprints to identify the media content;
identify overlay content linked to the media content in an overlay content database;
and
superimpose the overlay content on the media content at the TV.

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A method comprising:

receiving, at data processing hardware of an automatic content recognition (ACR) system at a television (TV), a first set of fingerprints of media content from a media content provider, each fingerprint of the first set of fingerprints based on pixel luminance, the first set of fingerprints comprising a first fingerprint corresponding to a first fingerprint layout and a second fingerprint corresponding to a second fingerprint layout;
receiving, at the data processing hardware of the ACR system, frames of media content displayed on the TV;
fingerprinting, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, each frame of the media content displayed on the TV based on pixel luminance to obtain a second set of fingerprints, the second set of fingerprints comprising a third fingerprint corresponding to a first fingerprint layout and a fourth fingerprint corresponding to a second fingerprint layout;
matching, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, at least one of the first fingerprint or the second fingerprint of the first set of fingerprints to at least one of the third fingerprint or the fourth fingerprint of the second set of fingerprints to identify the media content;
identifying, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, overlay content linked to the media content in an overlay content database;
and
superimposing, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, the overlay content on the media content at the TV.

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A method comprising:

receiving, at data processing hardware of an automatic content recognition (ACR) system, frames of media content via a first interface of the ACR system, the first interface configured to communicate with a media content provider of a network connection;
fingerprinting, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, a frame of the media content based on pixel luminance to obtain a first set of fingerprints, the first set of fingerprints comprising a first fingerprint corresponding to a first fingerprint layout and a second fingerprint corresponding to a second fingerprint layout;
storing, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, the first set of fingerprints at a reference database;
receiving, at the data processing hardware of the ACR system, via a third interface of the ACR system, a second set of fingerprints based on pixel luminance for frames of media content displayed on a television (TV), the second set of fingerprints comprising a third fingerprint corresponding to the first fingerprint layout and a fourth fingerprint corresponding to the second fingerprint layout, the third interface configured to communicate with the television (TV);
matching, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, at least one of the first fingerprint or the second fingerprint of the first set of fingerprints to at least one of the third fingerprint or the fourth fingerprint of the second set of fingerprints to identify the media content;
identifying, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, overlay content linked to the media content in an overlay content database;
and
sending, by the data processing hardware of the ACR system, the overlay content to the TV to superimpose on top of the media content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/035,051Filed 13 Jul 2018 · continuation
Priority: 16 Mar 2016
Published: US 2018/0343494 A129 Nov 2018
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
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Classification12 codes

H04N 21/4415
Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card: using biometric characteristics of…
H04N 21/23418
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving operations for…
H04N 21/2541
Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server: rights Management
H04N 21/2668
Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD…:…

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Application62/309,366Us provisional application · filed 16 Mar 2016
Application15/243,658Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Aug 2016
US 2018/0343494 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Nov 2018
US 10,063,917 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0272814 A1Published application
US 10,257,570 B2This patent

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