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.
Claims21
(canceled)
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one memory;
- instructions in the apparatus;
- and
- processor circuitry to execute the instructions to:
- generate a first hint value based on a first characteristic associated with a media presentation, the first characteristic indicative of a commercial transition;
- generate a second hint value based on a second characteristic associated with the media presentation, the second characteristic indicative of the commercial transition;
- determine an aggregated weighted hint value based on the first hint value and the second hint value;
- and
- indicate a presence of the commercial transition associated with the media presentation based on a determination that the aggregated weighted hint value satisfies a threshold.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least:
- generate a first hint value based on a first characteristic associated with a media presentation, the first characteristic indicative of a commercial transition;
- generate a second hint value based on a second characteristic associated with the media presentation, the second characteristic indicative of the commercial transition;
- determine an aggregated weighted hint value based on the first hint value and the second hint value;
- and
- indicate a presence of the commercial transition associated with the media presentation based on a determination that the aggregated weighted hint value satisfies a threshold.
A method comprising:
- generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a first hint value based on a first characteristic associated with a media presentation, the first characteristic indicative of a commercial transition;
- generating, by executing an instruction with the processor, a second hint value based on a second characteristic associated with the media presentation, the second characteristic indicative of the commercial transition;
- determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, an aggregated weighted hint value based on the first and second hint values;
- and
- indicating, by executing an instruction with the processor, a presence of the commercial transition associated with the media presentation based on a determination that the aggregated weighted hint value satisfies a threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.