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US 2015/0312647 A1Published application
Programmatically Determining When Credits Appear During a Video in Order to Provide Supplemental Information
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsAndrew Abramson, Benjamin David Poiesz
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Abstract
Described is a system and method for programmatically determining credits for a video content item. By determining a point at which credits are displayed, a content provider may effectively provide supplementation information in a contextual and non-intrusive manner. In order to determine when credits are displayed, individual frames of content may be decoded and various characteristics of the individual frames may be analyzed.
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A method, comprising:
- decoding, by a computing device to a storage, a predefined portion of a video content item into a set of individual frames;
- determining, by the computing device, characteristics of the set of individual frames to determine a transition between scenes of the video content;
- performing, by the computing device, optical character recognition (OCR) on one or more frames of the set of individual frames to extract textual information;
- and
- determining, by the computing device, a point at which the video content item displays credits based on at least one of the determined transition between scenes and the extracted textual information.
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A method, comprising:
- providing, by a computing device and for output to a display operatively coupled to the computing device, a video content item;
- determining, by the computing device and during playback of the video content item, that the computing device has reached a predefined portion of the video content item;
- analyzing, by the computing device and during playback of the predefined portion of the video content item, a set of individual frames of the predefined portion to determine a point at which the video content item displays credits;
- and
- providing, by the computing device and for output to the display, supplemental content information contemporaneous to the determined point at which the video content item displays credits.
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A device, comprising:
- a processor, the processor configured to:
- decode, to a storage, a predefined portion of a video content item into a set of individual frames;
- determine characteristics of the set of individual frames to determine a transition between scenes of the video content;
- perform optical character recognition (OCR) on at least one frame of the set of individual frames to extract textual information;
- and
- determine a point at which the video content item displays credits based on at least one of the determined transition between scenes and the extracted textual information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.