System and method for continuous media segment identification
AssigneeInscape Data, Inc.
InventorW. Leo Hoarty
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Abstract
This invention provides a means to identify unknown media programming using the audio component of said programming. The invention extracts audio information from the media received by consumer electronic devices such as smart TVs and TV set-top boxes then conveys said information to a remote server means which will in turn identify said audio information of unknown identity by way of testing against a database of known audio segment information. The system identifies unknown media programming in real-time such that time-sensitive services may be offered such as interactive television applications providing contextually related information or television advertisement substitution. Other uses include tracking media consumption among many other services.
Claims21
(canceled)
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an unknown cue from an unknown media segment, wherein the unknown media segment is associated with media being presented by a display device;
- identifying, from a multi-dimensional database, a matching cue corresponding to a known media segment based on a distance between the unknown cue and the matching cue;
- identifying an alternative media segment based on the known media segment;
- and
- transmitting a trigger signal to the display device, the trigger signal causing the display device to replace a subsequent media segment to be presented by the display device with the alternative media segment.
A computing device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
- receiving an unknown cue from an unknown media segment, wherein the unknown media segment is associated with media being presented by a display device;
- identifying, from a multi-dimensional database, a matching cue corresponding to a known media segment based on a distance between the unknown cue and the matching cue;
- identifying an alternative media segment based on the known media segment;
- and
- transmitting a trigger signal to the display device, the trigger signal causing the display device to replace a subsequent media segment to be presented by the display device with the alternative media segment.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:
- receiving an unknown cue from an unknown media segment, wherein the unknown media segment is associated with media being presented by a display device;
- identifying, from a multi-dimensional database, a matching cue corresponding to a known media segment based on a distance between the unknown cue and the matching cue;
- identifying an alternative media segment based on the known media segment;
- and
- transmitting a trigger signal to the display device, the trigger signal causing the display device to replace a subsequent media segment to be presented by the display device with the alternative media segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.