System and method for detecting repeating content, including commercials, in a video data stream
AssigneeAlphonso Inc.
InventorsLampros KALAMPOUKAS, Manish GUPTA, Raghu Srinivas KODIGE
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting potential repeating content, such as commercials, in a video data stream by receiving one or more video data streams, parsing each video data stream into a plurality of segments, creating a representation of each segment such as a segment fingerprint, storing the plurality of segment representations in a database, and identifying any segment representations in the received and parsed one or more video data streams that match segment representations in the database that were previously stored from video data streams that were previously received and parsed.
Claims2
An automated method of detecting potential commercials in a video data stream that contains (i) segments of program type content, and (ii) commercial content, wherein segment representations of the video data stream are maintained in a database, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving one or more video data streams in a video processing engine;
- (b) parsing, by the video processing engine, each video data stream into a plurality of segments, each segment having a predefined time length that is less than the time length of an average commercial;
- (c) creating, by the video processing engine, a representation of each segment;
- (d) storing the plurality of segment representations in a database, the database including database records, each record including one segment representation and an associated timestamp that represents the time that the segment was aired or streamed;
- (e) identifying, by a search engine that is in communication with the video processing engine and the database, any segment representations in the received and parsed one or more video data streams that match segment representations in the database that were previously stored from video data streams that were previously received and parsed, wherein the video processing engine designates the content of each of the identified segment representations as being a portion of one or more potential commercials.
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