Systems and methods for recording media assets
AssigneeRovi Product Corporation
InventorPaul Stathacopoulos
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to record portions of media assets. User request is received to record a media asset together with a criterion for recording portions of that media asset. A content recognition algorithm is executed against segments of the media asset to determine a set of keywords associated with those segments. Separately a set of keywords associated with the criterion is generated. Sets of keywords are compared and segments that match the criterion are discovered. If it is determined that a first segment and third segment each match the criterion and a second segment does not, a delete indicator is added to the second segment and the third and first segments are compared. If those segments match the delete indicator is removed from the second segment.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a media guidance application, instructions to record a content based on a number of keywords;
- identifying, by the media guidance application, a first segment of the content, a second segment of the content, and a third segment of the content, wherein the first segment, the second segment and the third segment are continuous;
- determining, by the media guidance application, whether the first segment and the third segment include the number of the keywords and that the second segment does not include the number of the keywords, wherein the determination is made by the media guidance application automatically executing content recognition on the first segment, second segment, and the third segment;
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- in response to determining that the first segment and the third segment include the number of the keywords, causing, by the media guidance application, to be recorded the first segment, the second segment, and the third segment.
A system for causing to be recorded content, the system comprising:
- storage;
- and
- control circuitry configured to:
- receive instructions to record the content based on a number of keywords;
- identify a first segment of the content, a second segment of the content, and a third segment of the content, wherein the first segment, the second segment and the third segment are continuous;
- determine whether the first segment and the second third segment include the number of keywords meet the criterion and that the second segment does not include the number of keywords, wherein the determination is made by the media guidance application automatically executing content recognition on the first segment, second segment, and the third segment;
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- in response to determining that the first segment and the second third segment include the number of keywords, cause to be recorded the first segment, the second segment, and the third segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.