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US 12,231,720 B2Granted
Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements associated with media presentations
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsDavid H. Wright, Scott Wilson, Ron Schwerer, Ronan Heffernan
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements associated with media presentations are disclosed. An example method involves receiving a video frame and detecting a change in box-formatting between the video frame and a subsequent video frame. A transition between the video frame and the subsequent video frame is indicated as a commercial advertisement transition based on the detected change in box-formatting.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- memory having stored therein machine-readable instructions;
- and
- one or more processors configured to execute the machine-readable instructions, wherein the machine-readable instructions cause, when executed by the one or more processors, the system to:
- obtain a sample of a media presentation;
- access timing information associated with video compression encoding of video frames of the sample of the media presentation;
- detect a discontinuity in the timing information associated with video compression encoding between a first video frame of the sample of the media presentation and a second video frame adjacent to the first video frame of the sample of the media presentation;
- determine that the first video frame is blank;
- determine that an audio frame of the sample of the media presentation that corresponds to the first video frame satisfies an audio power threshold;
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- based at least on the detecting the discontinuity in the timing information, the determining that the first video frame is blank, and the determining that the audio frame satisfies the audio power threshold, indicate a commercial transition between the first video frame and the second video frame in the sample of the media presentation.
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A method comprising:
- obtaining a sample of a media presentation;
- accessing timing information associated with video compression encoding of video frames of the sample of the media presentation;
- detecting a discontinuity in the timing information associated with video compression encoding between a first video frame of the sample of the media presentation and a second video frame adjacent to the first video frame of the sample of the media presentation;
- determining that the first video frame is blank;
- determining that an audio amplitude of an audio frame of the sample of the media presentation that corresponds to the first video frame is below an audio power threshold;
- and
- indicating a commercial transition between the first video frame and the second video frame in the sample of the media presentation based at least on the detecting the discontinuity in the timing information, the determining that the first video frame is blank, and the determining that the audio amplitude is below the audio power threshold.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing system, cause performance of operations including:
- obtaining a sample of a media presentation;
- accessing timing information associated with video compression encoding of video frames of the sample of the media presentation;
- detecting a discontinuity in the timing information associated with video compression encoding between a first video frame of the sample of the media presentation and a second video frame adjacent to the first video frame of the sample of the media presentation;
- determining that the first video frame is blank;
- determining that an audio amplitude of an audio frame of the sample of the media presentation that corresponds to the first video frame is below a near-silent audio power threshold;
- and
- indicating a commercial transition between the first video frame and the second video frame in the sample of the media presentation based at least on the detecting the discontinuity in the timing information, the determining that the first video frame is blank, and the determining that the audio amplitude is below the near-silent audio power threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.