Advertising extracting system
AssigneeEloda Inc.
InventorsJean-Charles Dupuis, Jean-François Pouliot, Yves Roy
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Abstract
A system and method for extracting advertising segments from a video source, stores the extracted segments in a stractured database to be used in various applications. The system for extracting advertising, or other promotional segments, from a video signal converts the video signal to a digital format, if requied, stores the video signal in a database, scans the video signal for the presence of predetermined characteristics and uses the characteristics to locate a start and an end of each segment.
Claims20
A system for extracting advertising or other promotional segments from a video signal comprising:
- means for converting, if required, the video signal to a digital format;
- means for storing said video signal in a database;
- means for scanning said video signal for the presence of predetermined characteristics;
- means to associating said characteristics with a start and an end of each said segments;
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- means for storing said segments without a remainder of said video signal.
A method for tracking and retrieving adverting segments from a television signal, comprising:
- converting, if required, the television signal to a digital format;
- storing said digital television signal in a database;
- scanning the television signal for the presence of predetermined characteristics;
- identifying a start and an end of said advertising segments using said predetermined characteristics;
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- creating a signature for each segment using frames taken at predetermined internals between the start and the end of each segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.