US 9,058,846 B2Granted

Video map synchronizing diagnostic information

AssigneeCustomPlay LLC

InventorAdam L. Minder

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Abstract

A method comprising comparing a frame rate of a source video program to a frame rate of a target video program to generate a conversion factor between the two sources; retrieving a target frame and retrieving, responsive to a location of the target video frame within the target video program, and responsive to the conversion factor, a source video frame from within the source video program; determining, by means of an image comparison, equivalence between the target frame and the source frame; generating, responsive to the determining of equivalence, synchronization diagnostic information; and synchronizing, responsive to an analysis of the synchronization diagnostic information, the target frame and the source frame, the synchronizing enabling a set of non-sequential segments of the target video program to be equivalent to a set of non-sequential segments of the source video program.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method comprising the steps of:

comparing a video frame rate of a source video program to a video frame rate of a target video program to generate a conversion factor between the source video program and the target video program;
retrieving a target video frame from within the target video program;
storing in a memory, as a bitmap, the target video frame;
retrieving, responsive to a location of the target video frame within the target video program, and responsive to the conversion factor, each of a plurality of source video frames from within the source video program;
determining equivalence between the target video frame and each of the plurality of source video frames;
the determining being responsive to a comparison of bits of a bitmap of the target video frame and bits of a bitmap of a source video frame;
generating, responsive to the determining of equivalence, synchronization diagnostic information;
and
synchronizing, responsive to an analysis of the synchronization diagnostic information, the target video frame and one of plurality of source video frames, the synchronizing enabling a set of non-sequential video segments of the target video program to be equivalent to a set of non-sequential video segments of the source video program.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/955,085Filed 31 Jul 2013
Published: US 2015/0037004 A15 Feb 2015
Granted: 16 Jun 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G11B 27/3081
On the same track as the main recording: used signal is a video-frame or a video-field
G11B 27/105
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating discs
G11B 27/28
By using information detectable on the record carrier: by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording
H04N 5/783
On tape: adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate