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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsLalitha Agnihotri, Nevenka Dimitrova, Thomas McGee, Nicholas J. Mankovich
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A video signal is processed to generate one or more signatures associated with a broadcast program to be recorded by a recording device. The signatures are then processed to determine an actual start time and end time of the desired broadcast program, such that the program can be properly recorded despite delays or other changes in a pre-scheduled broadcast time of the program. One or more of the extracted signatures may be based at least in part on, e.g., a keyframe similarity measure, a histogram, one or more detected commercials, a transcript, a program logo or other detected object, detected text, and a sign-on or sign-off of the desired program. Other types of signatures can also be used.
A method for controlling a recording device, the method comprising the steps of:
An apparatus comprising:
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium containing one or more software programs for controlling the operation of a recording device, wherein the one or more programs when executed implement the steps of:
An apparatus comprising:
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