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20090013345 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR MONITORING TONE QUALITY OF AUDIO PLAYER AND BROADCAST SYSTEM - A method for monitoring tone quality of an audio player is provided. The method includes embedding a digital watermark into an audio signal, and playing the audio signal with the digital watermark by the audio player. Then, the digital watermark extracted from the audio signal played by the audio player is compared with the original digital watermark, so as to detect relative parameters of the tone quality of the audio player. | 01-08-2009 |
20090265729 | Audience Detection - A technique is disclosed for identifying members of an audience tuned to a program broadcast by a programming signal source, comprising the steps of storing personal identification signals in a plurality of portable devices to be carried by members of the audience; periodically transmitting said identification signals from the portable devices; providing a stationary detector to detect the identification signals if they exceed a selectable response of said detector; and setting the selectable response of said detector to a level such that the identification signals are detected only if the respective portable devices are located relative to the detector in positions where persons can perceive performance of the broadcast program. | 10-22-2009 |
20100064305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT USAGE - In one embodiment the present invention includes a system for identifying an unauthorized display of content. The system includes a preprocessor, an inserter, an observation device, and a subscriber information device. The preprocessor device preprocesses the content for subsequent insertion of semi-visible information. The inserter device inserts a semi-visible watermark into the content as having been preprocessed by the preprocessor device. The semi-visible watermark corresponds to a subscriber identifier. The observation device executes processing, including receiving an input from an observer that observes a display of the content that includes the semi-visible watermark. The input corresponds to the semi visible watermark. The processing further includes processing the input to generate an input result. The subscriber information device stores subscriber identifiers and identifies a particular subscriber by comparing the input result and the subscriber identifiers. | 03-11-2010 |
20100083299 | Methods and Apparatus for Determining Whether a Media Presentation Device is in an On State or an Off State - Methods and apparatus for determining whether a media presentation device is in an on state or an off state are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises determining first and second characteristics of a signature associated with a signal representative of media content presented via a media presentation device, evaluating the first and second characteristics to determine first and second fuzzy contribution values representing, respectively, degrees with which the first and second characteristics correspond to the media presentation device being in at least one of an on state or an off state, determining a third fuzzy contribution value based on a number of the first and second contribution values indicating the media presentation device is in one of the on or off states, and combining the first, second and third fuzzy contribution values for use in determining whether the media presentation device is in the on state or the off state. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095320 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AUDIO/VIDEO CONTENT USING TEMPORAL SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS - Methods and apparatus for identifying audio/video content using temporal characteristics of a signal are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods receive a signature associated with audio/video content presented at a monitored site, wherein the signature is based on a plurality of time intervals associated with audio features of the audio/video content presented at the monitored site and identify the audio/video content presented at the monitored site based on the received signature. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115542 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT USING TEMPORAL SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS - Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method to identify media content includes receiving a reference signal corresponding to known media content and generating a reference signature based on the reference signal. The method further includes generating a plurality of sums based on peaks in the media signal and identifying one or more signal peaks based on the generated sums. The method then generates a second signature based on a plurality of normalized curve features, wherein each normalized curve feature corresponds to a signal peak at the temporal location of the signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115543 | Simulcast resolution in content matching systems - An audience measurement system generates signatures of unknown pieces of content viewed by panel members, and generates reference signatures of known pieces of content. The signatures of the unknown pieces of content are stored and transmitted to a central processing site, where they are compared with the reference signatures for their identification. A scanning engine finds matches between the signatures of the unknown and the known contents, and stores matches so as to build “tracking segments”, i.e., strings of matches that indicate a coincidence between the unknown content and one or more known pieces of content for a certain period of time, and associates the unknown content to the known piece of content with the longest tracking segment. | 05-06-2010 |
20100122279 | Method for Automatically Monitoring Viewing Activities of Television Signals - A method for automatically monitoring the viewing activities of television signals, characterized by providing a measurement device, in which the television signals are adapted to be communicated to the measurement device and the TV set, making the measurement device receive the same signals as the TV set; the measurement device is adapted to extract a fingerprint data from the television signals displayed to the viewers, making the measurement device measures the same video signals as those being seen by the viewers; and the fingerprint data is transferred to a data center; and sending the television signals which the viewers are selected to watch through the measurement device to a fingerprint matcher to be monitored. The method according to the present invention does not require any change to the other devices already in place before the measurement device is introduced into the connections. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131970 | AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD - An audience measurement system generates signatures of unknown pieces of content viewed by panel members, and generates multiplexed reference signatures of known pieces of content. The signatures of the unknown pieces of content are stored and transmitted to a central processing site, where they are compared with the reference signatures for their identification. A signature comparator finds matches between the signatures of the unknown and the known contents. | 05-27-2010 |
20100146532 | CHANNELS AND SERVICES DISPLAY - The availability of a new information service is publicized by displaying an icon in an EPG when the presence of a new information service is detected. A list of new services is then displayed responsive to a user command. When one of the new services is displayed instead of the list. | 06-10-2010 |
20100169911 | System for Automatically Monitoring Viewing Activities of Television Signals - A system for automatically monitoring the viewing activities of television signals, comprising a measurement device, in which the television signals are adapted to be communicated to the measurement device and the TV set, making the measurement device receive the same signals as the TV set; the measurement device is adapted to extract a fingerprint data from the television signals displayed to the viewers, making the measurement device measures the same video signals as those being seen by the viewers; a data center to which the fingerprint data is transferred; and a fingerprint matcher to which the television signals which the viewers are selected to watch are sent to be monitored through the measurement device. The system according to the present invention does not require any change to the other devices already in place before the measurement device is introduced into the connections. | 07-01-2010 |
20100242061 | Audience measurement and analysis in digital environment - For digital media, audience evaluation is performed as a result of transmitter-receiver interaction similar to a lottery game. The transmitter provides receivers with a preliminary audience estimate and a “winning” number, both placed in control packets multiplexed with a media stream. Each receiver generates a random number within a range of numbers proportional to the audience estimate and if the winning number is generated, the receiver sends a “claim” back to the transmitter over a return path. The transmitter increases or decreases the audience estimate placed in control packets if the number of “winners” is statistically greater or lesser than theoretically predicted for correct estimates until the number of winners becomes as predicted. Reducing the volume of data transmitted over the return path and keeping the volume independent from audience size, the system prevents the return pass capacity overload and provides an accurate measurement of any audience no matter how large or small it is. | 09-23-2010 |
20100306791 | DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNATURE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH VIDEO PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS - Digital video signature apparatus and methods for use with video program identification systems are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods identify a video program using a sequence of signatures. Each of the signatures includes a set of centroids corresponding to one of a plurality of frames of the video program. The apparatus and methods compare the sequence of signatures to a set of reference sequences of signatures and identify the video program based on the comparison of the sequence of signatures to the set of reference sequences of signatures. | 12-02-2010 |
20100319015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING ADVERTISING CONTENT FROM TELEVISION OR RADIO CONTENT - A method and an automated system of identifying and editing commercials are provided. The audio signals of broadcasted television or audio content is received and processed to generate voice print profiles of the actors of a particular show. The voice print profiles are stored in a system database and are periodically updated. The current voice print profile is matched with a previously identified voice print profile to identify commercials. The commercials are edited and the user views the television content without the undesired content. | 12-16-2010 |
20110078719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZING INPUT AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO STREAMS - A method and system for the automatic identification of audio, video, multimedia, and/or data recordings based on immutable characteristics of these works. The invention does not require the insertion of identifying codes or signals into the recording. This allows the system to be used to identify existing recordings that have not been through a coding process at the time that they were generated. Instead, each work to be recognized is “played” into the system where it is subjected to an automatic signal analysis process that locates salient features and computes a statistical representation of these properties. These features are then stored as patterns for later recognition of live input signal streams. A different set of features is derived for each audio or video work to be identified and stored. During real-time monitoring of a signal stream, a similar automatic signal analysis process is carried out, and many features are computed for comparison with the patterns stored in a large feature database. For each particular pattern stored in the database, only the relevant characteristics are compared with the real-time feature set. Preferably, during analysis and generation of reference patterns, data are extracted from all time intervals of a recording. This allows a work to be recognized from a single sample taken from any part of the recording. | 03-31-2011 |
20110088053 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADJUST SIGNATURE MATCHING RESULTS FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Methods and apparatus to adjust signature matching results for audience measurement are disclosed. An example method to adjust a signature matching result associated with monitoring a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining a monitored signature representative of the monitored media content presentation from a monitoring device, obtaining an environmental characteristic associated with the monitored signature from the monitoring device, and adjusting the signature matching result using an adjustment value when the monitored signature is determined to match a reference signature representative of reference media content, the adjustment value selected from a plurality of adjustment values based on the matched reference signature and the environmental characteristic. | 04-14-2011 |
20110099571 | DETERMINATION OF RECEIVING LIVE VERSUS TIME-SHIFTED MEDIA CONTENT AT A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of determining whether live media content or time-shifted media content is received at a communication device is presented. In the method, attribute information concerning media content received at a communication device at a specific time is received. Also received is schedule information including an identity of media content carried at the specific time over a channel identified in the attribute information. The media content identity from the attribute information is compared with the media content identity from the schedule information. The received media content is determined to be live media content if the media content identity from the attribute information agrees with the media content identity from the schedule information. The received media content is determined to be time-shifted media content if the media content identity from the attribute information does not agree with the media content identity from the schedule information. | 04-28-2011 |
20110239245 | PORTABLE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS FOR PORTABLE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to collect audience measurement data from media devices, a plurality of data collection servers configured to collect audience measurement data from the plurality of portable measurement devices, and a central data processing server. A portable measurement device establishes a communication link with a data collection server in a peer-to-peer manner and transfers the collected audience measurement data to the data collection server. Because the portable measurement device is not dedicated to a particular local data collection server, the portable measurement device periodically or a periodically broadcasts a message attempting to find a data collection server with which to establish a communication link. | 09-29-2011 |
20110302597 | DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNATURE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH VIDEO PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS - Digital video signature apparatus and methods for use with video program identification systems are disclosed. The example apparatus and methods generate a signature associated with a video program. An example system includes a frame scanner to scan video frames associated with the video program. The frame scanner is to select a video frame based on a number of intra-coded macro blocks within the video frame. The example system also includes an intra-coded macro block extractor to extract intra-coded macro blocks from the video frame and a scaled image extractor to extract a scaled image from the intra-coded macro blocks. A signature generator is also included in the example system to calculate a plurality of centroids associated with video frame based on the scaled image and to form the signature based on the plurality of centroids. | 12-08-2011 |
20120102518 | SOURCE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for determining an operating mode of a recording/playing device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an extractor to extract signatures associated with a first signal associated with a tuner that is to tune to a program signal, a second signal associated with a recording/playing device that is to at least one of record and play a program, and a third signal associated with a receiver coupled to the recording/playing device. The example apparatus also includes a recording detector to detect a recording signal generated by the recording/playing device during recording of the program to form a recorded program. Also included is a correlator to correlate the first, second, and third signals and a processor to identify the operating mode of the recording/playing device based on detection of the recording signal and correlation of two or more of the first, second, and third signals. | 04-26-2012 |
20120110610 | Systems and methods for providing a token registry and encoder - Systems and methods for using tokens to link the television and the Internet platforms. The tokens are tightly encoded into the content and a registry controls the linking of the television content to specific Internet-based content. The registry also polices the validity of the tokens and optionally provides the token owner with continued control over the Internet content associated with that token. When the two platforms are linked successfully, the consumer receives quality content, while being protected from unwanted Internet content. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117583 | ADAPTABLE VIDEOLENS MEDIA ENGINE - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data. Content features from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Embodiments then generate an index or menu based on individual consumer preferences. Consumers can peruse the index, or produce customized trailers, or edit and tag content with metadata as desired. The tool can categorize and cluster content by feature, to assemble a library of scenes or scene clusters according to user-selected criteria. The results may be sent to visual search engines so that further related content may be identified for use as a customized trailer, replacement content for advertisements, or as material to be shared with others. | 05-10-2012 |
20120117584 | Method and System for Presenting Additional Content at a Media System - A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content. | 05-10-2012 |
20120246671 | DETECTING PERIODIC ACTIVITY PATTERNS - A method of detecting periodic activity patterns associated with the viewing of audio video content is described. The method includes: recording activity data in an activity log; suppressing the activity log one or more times to suppress non-relevant activity data thereby producing one or more sets of suppressed activity data; passing the one or more sets of suppressed activity data through a signal processing function to convert the one or more sets of suppressed activity data to one or more frequency responses; and analysing the one or more frequency responses to detect the periodic activity patterns. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 09-27-2012 |
20120266187 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT USING GLOBAL SIGNATURE REPRESENTATION AND MATCHING - Disclosed example methods to determine a time offset between a first media content signature comprising a first sequence of first data pairs and a second media content signature comprising a second sequence of second data pairs include determining a histogram comprising a plurality of bins representative of a plurality of determined time differences. The plurality of determined time differences include each respective time difference determined between each first data pair and second data pair combination. Each respective bin of the histogram represents a respective window of time differences and has a respective value representative of a number of the plurality of determined time differences lying within the respective window of time differences represented by the respective bin. Such disclosed example methods also include selecting at least one bin of the histogram to correspond to the time offset between the first signature and the second signature. | 10-18-2012 |
20120278828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROGRAM PRESENTATION ANALYSIS - A computing system is programmed to detect if program content is presented on a channel. A program signature is determined based on set-top box tune data from set-top boxes in a market in which it is known the program content was presented. The program signature can be compared to program signatures from other local markets or from the same market to determine if the same program content was presented. In some embodiments, the program signature represents the number of set-top boxes simultaneously tuned to the channel on which the program content is presented. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278829 | ADVERTISING METRICS SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure relates to a system and method for monitoring audio-video (AV) streams transported over a network. The system may include an AV probe deployed between an AV tuner and AV destination customer premise equipment. The AV probe may receive an incoming AV stream. The AV probe may generate a thumbnail stream by capturing thumbnails of the incoming AV stream. The AV probe may transmit, substantially in real-time, the thumbnail stream to a monitoring engine and the incoming AV stream to the AV destination customer premise equipment. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284740 | METHOD OF SURVEYING WATCHING OF IMAGE CONTENT, AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SERVER EMPLOYING THE SAME - A method of surveying watching image content, and a broadcast receiving apparatus and server employing the same are provided. The method includes displaying image contents on a screen; capturing and storing signature images of the image contents; and in response to receipt of a query, comprising a target image of image contents to be surveyed, from an external server, determining whether one of the stored signature images is identical to the target image, and transmitting a result of the determining to the external server. | 11-08-2012 |
20120291058 | SIGNATURE-BASED PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH DIGITAL BROADCAST SYSTEMS - Signature-based program identification apparatus and methods for use with digital audio and/or video systems are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods develop signatures of digital audio and/or video content from a digital data stream at two or more sites and compare the signatures to one another to identify the content. | 11-15-2012 |
20120304214 | SIMULCAST RESOLUTION IN CONTENT MATCHING SYSTEMS - Example methods disclosed herein to identify media sources comprise obtaining monitored signatures generated from monitored media, comparing the monitored signatures with reference signatures generated from reference media provided by a plurality of reference sources, determining tracking segments associated with respective ones of the reference sources, each tracking segment representing sequences of matches between the monitored signatures and respective reference signatures for a respective one of the reference sources, and evaluating time lengths of the tracking segments to identify which reference source in the plurality of reference sources provided the monitored media. | 11-29-2012 |
20120324500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA PROGRAM - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a processor adapted to receive a message from a portable communication device communicatively coupled to a set-top box presenting a media program and to retrieve from the message a media descriptor associated with the media program. The processor is further adapted to identify according to the media descriptor one or more images of one or more performers commonly presented in the media program, to monitor one or more frames of a live media feed including the media program, and compare the one or more human figures to the one or more images of performers. The processor can also be adapted to recognize a performer from the comparison, to retrieve information associated with the performer, and to transmit the information to the portable communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 12-20-2012 |
20130132992 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING TELEVISION COMMERCIALS AND PROVIDING AN ARCHIVE INTERROGATION PROGRAM - An apparatus and method is disclosed for blocking specific television commercials from the viewer's television based upon the characteristics of the television commercial. In the method, characteristics from a first signal containing a television commercial received at a television are determined. The characteristics may include video and/or audio characteristics, and the characteristics may define a signature. Characteristics from a second signal, also containing the television commercial, are also received and are compared to the first signature. Upon recognizing the second signal, the television commercial is blocked. | 05-23-2013 |
20130139195 | Method for More Efficient Collecting of Information - Apparatus and processes for locating and processing QR codes or other Scannable Icons (SI's) in video or television signals. A number of client elements (which may correspond to users) may be in communication of one or more control elements; the client elements may be found in user set top boxes, digital video recorders or other equipment employed to receive video or television signals. The control elements may be found in software in server platforms or such user equipment. The client elements may locate and decode SI's according to various areas of interest of users. The control elements may control which client elements monitor various video or television signals; receive information related to decoded SI's; and report information to client elements so that (among other things) users can be aware of SI's in far more video or television signals than their own client elements are able to monitor. | 05-30-2013 |
20130152118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING CHANNEL INFORMATION USING BROADCAST DATA - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for obtaining a viewing channel identifier when a user desires to participate in a video broadcast in a channel the user is viewing in a section of an interactive broadcast service. The present invention may include an audio/video receiver to collect broadcast data from a user viewing channel, and extract audio/video data from the collected broadcast data, a sampling unit to sample the extracted audio/video data, a preprocessing unit to encode the sampled audio/video data, and a viewing channel determining unit to compare the encoded audio/video data to audio/video sampling data for N broadcast channels received from a channel identification server, and obtain a viewing channel identifier according to a result of comparison. | 06-13-2013 |
20130160043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE MATCHING FOR ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF A BROADCAST STREAM - A method of image matching of anchor frames with events in broadcast video is developed which can efficiently identify and recognize the broadcast events and at that can be applied for meaningful analysis and or processing of the broadcast video based on the image match technique. The proposed technique relates to frame recognition technique and its utilization in various applications to analyze and process broadcast streams. | 06-20-2013 |
20130179915 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SUBSCRIPTION DATA - Methods and systems for providing subscription data are described. Subscription data may be received from a subscription data source. The video content may be provided for presentation. A determination may be made of whether the subscription data is contextually relevant to the video content. The subscription data may be provided for presentation in accordance with the determination and the providing of the video content. | 07-11-2013 |
20130198768 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A receiving device includes: a receiver configured to receive AV content; a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from data of the received AV content; an identification result acquirer configured to acquire an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature by using an Automatic Content Recognition technique; a command acquirer configured to acquire a command for controlling operation of an application program run in conjunction with the AV content in accordance with the acquired identification result; and a controller configured to control operation of the application program in accordance with the acquired command. | 08-01-2013 |
20130205321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION PROTOCOLS - Systems, methods and/or techniques for automatic content recognition protocols are described. A method may be executed in a media device having an automatic content recognition application programming interface. The method may include generating one or more video fingerprints that correspond to video content that displays on the media device. The method may include communicating the one or more video fingerprints to an automatic content recognition backend system. The automatic content recognition backend system compares the one or more video fingerprints with one or more stored video fingerprints and determines whether a match occurs. If the match occurs, one or more event identifiers associated with the one or more video fingerprints may be received from the automatic content recognition backend system. The one or more event identifiers may be communicated to an application server, and one or more interactive events may be received from the application server. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205322 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIAL TESTING AND AUDIENCE RESPONSE UTILIZING AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION - Systems, methods and/or techniques for synchronization of dial testing and audience response utilizing automatic content recognition (ACR) are described. Synchronized dial testing and audience response techniques may utilize a system that is operable to perform ACR and that may implement an abstraction layer. An ACR system may be operable to detect a desired portion (e.g., a frame or scene) of a program that is streaming or communicated over a live network or broadcast feed, to a smart TV for example. Synchronized dial testing and audience response techniques may be employed to initiate an interactive event or application that appears on a smart TV in response to a detected point or portion of a program, such that the content presented by the application is synchronized to the content of the live network or broadcast feed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130205323 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A SYNCHRONOUS EVENT MANAGER FOR AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION - A method and system for a synchronous event manager for automatic content recognition (ACR) are described. A display device, such as a connected television or mobile device, may be operable to perform ACR and may utilize a synchronous event manager comprising a software layer that may continuously be executed as a background process. The software layer may comprise a single framework or framework from which to execute one or more user-interaction applications. The software layer may monitor internal and external events and may detect an event trigger produced in response to a match resulting from the ACR. After receiving a user-interaction application corresponding to the detected event trigger, the software layer may launch or invoke the user-interaction application from the single framework. In some instances, multiple user-interaction applications may be launched concurrently from the single framework. These user-interaction applications may interface with each other through the single framework. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOGO IDENTIFICATION BASED ON AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION - A method and system for logo identification based on automatic content recognition (ACR) are described in which a connected television (TV) or other end-user device may be provided with instructions to fingerprint certain regions in a video frame to identify the source of the content being displayed. Such instructions may be provided when, for example, fingerprint matching is able to identify content that is provided by multiple sources but is unable to identify the particular source of the content. In those instances, one or more additional locations may be determined for taking fingerprints in the video frame. These locations correspond to region of the video frame in which a graphical item that represents the network television station is typically displayed. A profile with these locations is generated and sent to the connected TV to take additional fingerprints to enable the identification of the network television station providing content. | 08-15-2013 |
20130227602 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND SERVER - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes, a receiver configured to receive a stream, a memory configured to store the stream, an analyzer configured to analyze the stream to generate comparison data, an acquisition module configured to acquire object information indicative of an identity of an object, from a database, by using feature data corresponding to the comparison data, and a controller configured to control the memory so that the object information acquired by the acquisition module and the stream are stored in the memory. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227603 | Image Selection from Captured Video Sequence Based on Social Components - In one embodiment, a mobile device analyzes frames before and after a particular frame of a real-time video to identify one or more social network objects, and selects one or more frames before and after the particular frame based on social network information for further storage in the mobile device. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227604 | AUTOMATED FORENSIC DOCUMENT SIGNATURES - Methods and systems are provided for a proactive approach for computer forensic investigations. The invention allows organizations anticipating the need for forensic analysis to prepare in advance. Forensic signatures are created including a digital fingerprint and other information associated with a file. In one aspect, informational signatures are created, which may assist in determining what information is included in a file. In another aspect, the digital fingerprint may represent contents of the file and is resistant to minor modification of the file. In another aspect, fingerprints can be compared in parallel on different computers. | 08-29-2013 |
20130247085 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEO MARKUP DATA ON THE BASIS OF VIDEO FINGERPRINT INFORMATION, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method for generating video markup data on the basis of video fingerprint information, and to a method and system for providing information using same; and more particularly, to a method and system for conveniently and efficiently providing a variety of pieces of information, such as object-related advertising information, on the basis of video markup data which are generated in consideration of object information relating to objects in a video and of the fingerprint information of the video. | 09-19-2013 |
20130291000 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO METER MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTED ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An example apparatus includes a meter to generate first information indicative of a media presentation mode of a media presentation application executed by a wireless communication device during a presentation of the media content received and presented via the wireless communication device, the media content comprising scheduled programming that is broadcasted or multicasted simultaneously to a plurality of other wireless communication devices during a pre-scheduled time; and generate second information indicative of the media content presented via the wireless communication device. A memory is to store the first information in association with the second information in the wireless communication device; and store third information in association with the first and second information. The third information is indicative of at least one of a location of a cell tower used to transmit the media content, an identifier of the cell tower, or an identifier of a wireless network access point. | 10-31-2013 |
20130332951 | MULTIFUNCTION MULTIMEDIA DEVICE - A method of deriving fingerprints for media content that is being watched by a user is described. For example, a user may select a particular show on an electronic programming guide displayed by a media device. The media device may then request the content stream, from the content source, that includes the particular show. The source may indicate whether a fingerprint is needed for the particular show requested by the media device. The indication may be a flag in the data received by the media device. If the particular show needs to be fingerprinted as indicated by the flag, the media device may decompress the corresponding video frames, load the decompressed video frames into memory and analyze the video frames to derive a fingerprint from the video frames. | 12-12-2013 |
20130347018 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT WITH ACTIVE MEDIA - A user viewing a presentation of media content can obtain related supplemental content through the same or a different interface, on the same or a different device. A listener or other such component can attempt to detect information about the media, such as tags present in the media, the occurrence of songs or people in the media, and other such information. The detected information can be analyzed to attempt to identify one or more aspects of the media. The identified aspects can be used to attempt to locate supplemental content that is related to the media content and potentially of interest to the user. The interest of the user can be based upon historical user data, preferences, or other such information. The user can be notified of supplemental content on a primary display, and can access the supplemental content on a secondary display, on the same or a separate device. | 12-26-2013 |
20140020005 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR DETECTING, INDEXING, AND COMPARING VIDEO SIGNALS FROM A VIDEO DISPLAY IN A BACKGROUND SCENE USING A CAMERA-ENABLED DEVICE - The present invention discloses methods for detecting, indexing, and comparing video signals from a video display in a background scene using a camera-enabled device. Methods include the steps of: pointing a camera-enabled (CEN) device at a video-signal surface; detecting a location of the video-signal surface in the background scene on the CEN device; and extracting at least one frame from the detected video-signal surface. Preferably, the method further includes the steps of: obtaining at least one image from at least one extracted frame; computing at least one compact signature from at least one image; comparing at least one compact signature with at least one stored compact signature in a database; and determining whether at least one match was found between at least one compact signature and at least one stored compact signature. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020006 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND APPLICATION INTERLOCKING SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus including: an extracting part configured to extract signature data representing a feature of reproduced content from the content; a profile generating part configured to generate user profile data; a query generating part configured to generate a query containing the signature data and the user profile data, transmit the query thus generated to a transmitting apparatus, and receive a response that is sent back from the transmitting apparatus in accordance with the query and that has been caused to match with the user profile data in the transmitting apparatus; and an application executing part configured to acquire and execute an application in conjunction with reproduction of the content based on the response thus received. | 01-16-2014 |
20140020007 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADAPTIVELY SELECT SENSOR(S) TO GATHER AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA BASED ON A VARIABLE SYSTEM FACTOR AND A QUANTITY OF DATA COLLECTIBLE BY THE SENSORS - Methods and apparatus to adaptively gather audience information data are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus monitor system factor(s) and select one or more sensors from a plurality of sensors positioned to gather audience measurement data based on the monitored factor(s). Thus, the disclosed methods and apparatus adapt to the conditions they face by selecting an amount and/or type of audience measurement data they gather. | 01-16-2014 |
20140026159 | PLATFORM PLAYBACK DEVICE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a computer program product, comprising a tangible computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein, the computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for identifying a platform type of a device, the method including providing a system, wherein the system comprises distinct software modules, and wherein the distinct software modules comprise a secure beacon generator; receiving, by the secure beacon generator, an audio portion of media content from a content playback module; determining, by the secure beacon generator, a platform type of the device; and generating, by the secure beacon generator, a beacon for integrating with a sound wave of the audio portion of the media content, wherein the beacon includes the determined platform type of the device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140068649 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine information associated with a product displayed on a display device and access a database of known products. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, by comparing the database of known products with the determined information associated with the product, an identity of the product displayed on the display device. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system provide one or more instructions to display media content related to the identified product. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068650 | DISPLAY DEVICE, SET-TOP BOX AND METHOD OF DETERMINING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO CONTENT - Exemplary embodiments disclose a method of determining whether an image received, or to be received, through a display device or a set-top box is stereoscopic video content, a display device and set-top box thereto. The method of determining stereoscopic video content includes receiving an EIT of future image content, extracting a plurality of events based on the EIT, detecting an event group, having different channel information and a same event identifier, among the extracted events, reading event information of events belonging to the event group to determine whether a stereoscopic program info descriptor is present in at least one event information of the events, and determining that the event group is an event group of stereoscopic video content, when the stereoscopic program info descriptor is present in the at least one event information of the events. | 03-06-2014 |
20140089958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MEDIA ASSETS BASED ON VISUAL ATTRIBUTES - Methods and systems are described herein for providing improved recommendations of media content by comparing visual attributes of a media asset to visual preferences of a user. A media guidance application may determine the visual attributes, including, but not limited to, the chrominance and luma values of particular pixels in a particular frame or frames of a media asset. The media guidance application compares the determined visual attributes to the visual preferences of a user retrieved from a user profile. Based on the comparison, the media guidance application may recommend the media asset to the user. | 03-27-2014 |
20140115618 | VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT ACQUISITION METHOD, VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A variety of advertisement information is associated with a scene being played back and the advertisement information is provided. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115619 | DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNATURE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH VIDEO PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS - Digital video signature apparatus and methods for use with video program identification systems are disclosed. The example apparatus and methods generate a signature associated with a video program. An example system includes a frame scanner to scan video frames associated with the video program. The frame scanner is to select a video frame based on a number of intra-coded macro blocks within the video frame. The example system also includes an intra-coded macro block extractor to extract intra-coded macro blocks from the video frame and a scaled image extractor to extract a scaled image from the intra-coded macro blocks. A signature generator is also included in the example system to calculate a plurality of centroids associated with video frame based on the scaled image and to form the signature based on the plurality of centroids. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115620 | Identifying an End of a Television Program - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums storing at least one program for identifying an end of a television program is described. In some implementations, a method comprises: periodically obtaining subtitles for a plurality of television programs during respective predetermined time intervals that include respective times when respective television programs in the plurality of television programs are scheduled to end; identifying sequences of strings from the subtitles for the plurality of television programs in accordance with predefined criteria associated with the plurality of television programs; and updating an aggregation of subtitles indicating that a television program in the plurality of television program has ended, with the identified sequences of strings. In some implementations, the method is implemented at a computing device having at least one processor and memory storing at least one program for execution by the at least one processor. | 04-24-2014 |
20140130076 | System and Method of Media Content Selection Using Adaptive Recommendation Engine - This is a system and method of providing selected media content whereby information about the characteristics or behavior of a person viewing the content viewer is detected or otherwise determined and then automatic feedback is used so that as such adjustments are made, the view behavior is further monitored in order to evaluate the quality of the adjustments and make further adjustments in order to meet a pre-determined objective. | 05-08-2014 |
20140173647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A SECOND SCREEN EXPERIENCE USING VIDEO SUBTITLE DATA - Second screen content for a display of an electronic device is generated and displayed in coordination with video content displayed on a display of another electronic device. The generation of the second screen content includes identifying keywords from subtitle data for the video content and identifying links to media content that relate to one or more of the keywords. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIVATE ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND FOR TIME RELEASING PRE-RECORDED DIGITAL CONTENT - A private online social networking system and method that provides time released dispersal of pre-recorded digital video and images wherein users record digital content such as videos and images at a first time, select from several system-generated, user specific criterion for future time release of the digital content to pre-selected recipients via the system or other third party services such as social networks. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181853 | Two Way Control of a Set Top Box using Optical Character Recognition - Features of various implementations are used to control operation of a second electronic device from a first electronic device using indirect control methods and optical character recognition. In some implementations, communication between a primary set-top box and a supplemental set-top box is configured in order to avoid the need for one or more provider-specific APIs. For example, one aspect of the disclosure is a method of identifying commands that can be used to control one or more features of a primary set-top box (e.g., DVR or VOD features) by a supplemental set-top box issuing commands to the primary set-top box via a wireless (e.g., IR) transmitter, and then using optical character recognition to identify the outcomes of those commands as displayed on a primary TV display or secondary display. | 06-26-2014 |
20140196070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED BROADCAST MEDIA IDENTIFICATION - An media identification system, operable by a network entity, receives media data for broadcast program segments including at least one of video data or audio data. The media identification system encodes a reference fingerprint based on the media data and receives a program log associated with the media data, the program log including segment names and broadcast times for the broadcast program segments. The media identification system associates the reference fingerprint with a segment name for a program segment based at least in part on the program log. | 07-10-2014 |
20140196071 | RENDERING DEVICE WITH CONTENT SUBSTITUTION - A device for rendering content from a first source comprising a first input for receiving the content from the first source, a second input for receiving a substitution content item from a second source, a substitution module for substituting a segment of the content with the substitution content item, and rendering means for rendering the content wherein the segment is substituted with the substitution content item. The rendering device has monitoring module for monitoring the reception of the segment, and controlling the substitution module dependent on whether the segment is being received, such that the substitution module ceases the substitution upon failure to receive the segment. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GROUPING BROADCASTING SIGNALS BASED ON MULTIMEDIA DNA INFORMATION - A system of grouping broadcasting signals based on a multimedia DNA of corresponding broadcast, which groups users viewing the same broadcast through the multimedia DNA of each broadcasting signal output from a TV in real time. A DNA information receiver receives DNA information on broadcasting signals, which are broadcasted through each TV. A DNA information grouping unit calculates similarity of the DNA information received through the DNA information receiver, and when the calculated similarity satisfies a predetermined similar condition, determines the similar DNA information as the DNA information of the same broadcasting signal to group the DNA information into the same group. A group information transmitter transmits group related information of each group grouped by the DNA information grouping unit to each TV. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201772 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDRESSING A MEDIA DATABASE USING DISTANCE ASSOCIATIVE HASHING - A system, method and computer program utilize a distance associative hashing algorithmic means to provide a highly efficient means to rapidly address a large database. The indexing means can be readily subdivided into a plurality of independently-addressable segments where each such segment can address a portion of related data of the database where the sub-divided indexes of said portions reside entirely in the main memory of each of a multiplicity of server means. The resulting cluster of server means, each hosting an addressable sector of a larger database of searchable audio or video information, provides a significant improvement in the latency and scalability of an Automatic Content Recognition system, among other uses. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201773 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ON-SCREEN GRAPHICS DETECTION - A system and method is disclosed for detecting locally-generated or other unknown graphics that are superimposed on a video program displayed on a television receiver or other like device. Devices external to a television receiver, such as a cable or satellite set-top box, can generate logos, electronic program guides, or other images that are then graphically overlaid on the television signal emanating from the device to the television's display. The system and method described herein provides a means to detect the presence of such on-screen graphics both to detect and identify graphical information and to also enable automated resolution of any interference among or between a plurality of video graphic sub-systems. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201774 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-BROADCAST DIFFERENTIATION - A system and method is disclosed for resolving false positives in a centralized, real-time automatic content recognition system that is ingesting, fingerprinting, and attempting to match for recognition purposes, multiple streams of broadcast content that are simultaneously arriving from a plurality of sources. In particular, the problem of identifying which specific broadcast of certain programming has been matched, including the episode of a series, as well as the channel, time zone and time of broadcast and whether the programing is being watched “live” as broadcast or from a DVR time-shifted source, is addressed. This system and method enables the processing means of any connected TV viewing means to synchronize with a regional automated content recognition (ACR) center with regard to displaying at the correct time certain supplemental information or other media that may be associated with certain programing. It also reduces the probability of a false positive “recognition” of pre-recorded media or broadcasts from other time zones being displayed on the connected TV viewing means, and confusing such programing with the actual media with which the TV viewing device's processing means is intended to count, synchronize, interact with, or supplement. | 07-17-2014 |
20140237499 | SIMULCAST RESOLUTION IN CONTENT MATCHING SYSTEMS - Example methods disclosed herein to identify media sources include determining whether a first time difference between a first meter signature and a second meter signature associated with presented media is equivalent to a second time difference between a first reference signature determined to match the first meter signature and a second reference signature determined to match the second meter signature, the first and second reference signatures being associated with a first one of a plurality of media sources. Such example methods also include, in response to determining that the first time difference and the second time difference are equivalent, appending the second reference signature to a first tracking segment associated with the first one of the media sources to cause a first time length associated with the first tracking segment to be increased based on at least a respective timestamp associated with the second reference signature. | 08-21-2014 |
20140250450 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO CONTENT RECOGNITION - System and method for automatically recognizing media contents comprise steps of capturing media content from the Internet and/or devices, extracting fingerprints from captured contents and transferring to the backend servers for identification, and backend servers processing the fingerprints and replying with identified result. | 09-04-2014 |
20140282668 | VIEWER BEHAVIOR TRACKING USING PATTERN MATCHING AND CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A method for tracking user behavior includes providing multiple frames from a source to an electronic device, automatically capturing one of the multiple frames viewed on a display device connected to the electronic device based on an event, matching a pattern of the captured frame with a frame template by searching a plurality of frame templates, using the matched frame template to extract information from the captured frame, and storing the extracted information for tracking user behavior. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282669 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY COMPANION MEDIA INTERACTION - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify companion media interaction. An example method includes identifying primary media corresponding to a primary media presentation generated by a primary media device of an environment. The example method also includes determining whether secondary media corresponding to secondary media device usage in the environment is related to the primary media. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN AN AUTOMATIC CONTENT RECOGNITION BASED SYSTEM - A device that handles operations for automatic content recognition detects utilizing the automatic content recognition (ACR) operations, a conflict when a first overlay and a second overlay are concurrently presented on a channel on the device. The device may modify the presentation of the first overlay and/or the second overlay for the channel based on the detection. The device utilizes the ACR operations to determine an identity of the channel based on a unique identifier such as a channel logo. The device utilizes the ACR operations to determine a location where the first overlay and/or the second overlay is presented based on the channel identity and may relocate the first overlay and/or the second overlay from the determined location to a new location. If the conflict is detected, the device may be resize, defer or cancel presentation of one of the first overlay and/or the second overlay for the channel. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282671 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify linear and non-linear media presentations are disclosed An example method to determine whether a media presentation is a linear or a non-linear media presentation comprises generating a reference log comprising a first media identifier of first media and a time at which the first media was presented, accessing a media presentation log comprising a second media identifier of second media and a time at which the second media was presented, and determining whether the second media correspond to a linear media presentation or a non-linear media presentation by comparing the media presentation log to the reference log. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282672 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR MEDIA - Methods and apparatus to discriminate between linear and non-linear media are disclosed An example method to determine whether a media presentation is a linear or a non-linear media presentation comprises generating a reference log comprising a first media identifier of first media and a time at which the first media was presented, accessing a media presentation log comprising a second media identifier of second media and a time at which the second media was presented, and determining whether the second media correspond to a linear media presentation or a non-linear media presentation by comparing the media presentation log to the reference log. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282673 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME TELEVISION AD DETECTION USING AN AUTOMATED CONTENT RECOGNITION DATABASE - A system and method for the automated real-time detection and processing of commercial messages, public service announcements or similar short-duration, repeated TV programming segments occurring in one or more broadcast video steams is described. A process is utilized that identifies possible commercial segments by identifying discrete video segments that have specific short durations among other attributes. Video segments that appear to have these characteristics are considered likely to be television commercials, promotions, or public service announcements and are stored in a TV Ad database which is separate from the primary television content database. Incoming video from a plurality of television programming sources is process into fingerprints and placed in a master TV content database. At the same time, said incoming programming is tested for matches in a TV ad database. If a match is found, then the presumed TV ad is removed from the master content database. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282674 | Image Recognition of Content - Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on the identified one or more images. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282675 | BROADCASTING RECEIVING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCASTING SIGNAL RELATION INFORMATION - A broadcasting receiving apparatus and a method for providing broadcasting signal relation information are provided. The broadcasting receiving apparatus, which accesses a server through a network, includes a broadcasting signal receiver which receives a broadcasting signal; a channel identifier which identifies a change of a channel of the broadcasting signal, generates a fingerprint corresponding to the broadcasting signal of the changed channel, and receives identification information of the changed channel from a matching server based on the generated fingerprint; and a relevant information provider which receives conditional information that indicates a condition for receiving relevant information of the broadcasting signal if the channel is changed, receives the relevant information based on the conditional information and displays the received relevant information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289754 | PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT INTERACTIVITY WITH MEDIA BROADCASTS - A method is disclosed including: receiving a broadcast media sequence; comparing broadcast media sequence and a reference media sequence; generating broadcast information related to the broadcast media sequence based on the comparison of the broadcast media sequence and the reference media sequence; and providing interactivity related to the broadcast media sequence to at least one viewer based on the broadcast information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289755 | MEDIA MONITORING USING MULTIPLE TYPES OF SIGNATURES - Media monitoring using multiple types of signatures is disclosed. Example media monitoring methods disclosed herein include reporting media signatures of a first type to monitor media presented by a media device, the media signatures of the first type being generated by a device meter from a sensed signal. Disclosed example media monitoring methods also include, after receiving an indication that a first media signature of the first type is associated with first reference media, generating media signatures of a second type, different from the first type, from the sensed signal to continue monitoring the media presented by the media device. Disclosed example media monitoring methods further include, in response to detecting that a source of the media presented by the media device has changed, generating the media signatures of the first type to continue monitoring the media presented by the media device. | 09-25-2014 |
20140325550 | REAL-TIME ANTI-PIRACY FOR BROADCAST STREAMS - Systems, devices, methods and computer program products respond to real-time piracy of broadcast streams. One method includes receiving requests from a requesting device for a plurality segments of a real-time content, where at least one of the requested content segments differs from another segment of the plurality of segments in at least one characteristic. In response to the request, a particular version of the requested segments is transmitted to the requesting device such that a unique sequence of the transmitted segments identifies the requesting device or a user or a transaction. A communication network is then monitored to obtain a disseminated version of the real-time content, and based on the at least one characteristic of the obtained real-time content, it is determined if the real-time content includes the unique sequence of segments, and if so, one or more actions are initiated to thwart further dissemination of the real-time content. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331246 | INTERACTIVE CONTENT AND PLAYER - A tool is provided that may allow a user to create unique content for a media item such as a movie. A movie may be received. An indication of an object in the movie may be received from an author. Supplemental content for the object in the movie may be received as may be an interactivity data. The interactivity data may specify a manner by which a user may interact with the movie using a device such as a camera and/or a microphone. The movie may be encoded to include the interactivity data and/or supplemental content. | 11-06-2014 |
20140331247 | SERVER SIDE ADAPTIVE BIT RATE REPORTING - A method and system for reporting a percentage of an advertisement played by a smart appliance is disclosed. The server receives data from a smart appliance. The server detects a marker in the data corresponding to a segment of an advertisement of a session played by the smart appliance. The server maps the marker to a percentage played of the advertisement in the session by the smart appliance. The server reports the percentage played of the advertisement in the session by the smart appliance to at least one tracking element. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337874 | RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a reception device including a reception part configured to receive first content, a feature amount extraction part configured to extract a feature amount from data of the received first content, an identification result acquisition part configured to acquire an identification result for the first content identified using the extracted feature amount, a command acquisition part configured to acquire a command for controlling an operation of changing over between the first content and second content different from the first content depending on the acquired identification result, and a control part configured to control an operation of changing over from the first content to the second content in response to the acquired command. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344845 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME NEW EVENT DETECTION ON VIDEO STREAMS - Techniques are disclosed for detecting new events in a video stream that yield improved detection efficiency in real time. For example, a method determines whether a given event is a new event in a video stream. The video stream includes a plurality of events. A first step extracts a first set of features (e.g., text features) from the given event. The first set of features is computationally less expensive to process as compared to a second set of features (e.g., image features) associated with the given event. A second step computes one or more first dissimilarity values between the given event and one or more previous events in the video stream using only the first set of features when one or more first dissimilarity criteria exist. A third step determines whether the given event is a new event based on the one or more computed first dissimilarity values. | 11-20-2014 |
20140366052 | System for Social Media Tag Extraction - A system for extracting and monitoring media tags within video content includes at least one server in communication with a plurality of content sources, the server receiving video content from the content sources, a recorder saving the video content, a detector receiving at least one frame of the video content, the detector detecting one or more unknown text within the frame and creating one or more images, each image associated with one of the one or more unknown text, the detector generating metadata associated with the one or more unknown text appearing in the frame, and an optical character recognition engine scanning the one or more images and converting the one or more images into one or more known text. The server further determines that the one or more known text is a media tag. | 12-11-2014 |
20150033248 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE FOR EMBEDDING TIME-CODED METADATA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A video processing device includes a content analyzer that receives a video signal and generates content recognition data based on the video signal, wherein the content recognition data is associated with at least one timestamp included in the video signal. A metadata search device generates time-coded metadata in response to content recognition data and in accordance with the at least one time stamp. A metadata association device generates a processed video signal from the video signal, wherein the processed video signal includes the time-coded metadata. | 01-29-2015 |
20150058877 | CONTENT-BASED AUDIO/VIDEO ADJUSTMENT - Embodiments are disclosed for methods and systems for adjusting audio/video data. In some embodiments, a method for performing adjustments includes receiving audio content and video content and analyzing the video content to identify image data indicating a channel generating the audio and video content. The method further includes adjusting the audio data of the audio content responsive to a type of content on the channel. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067712 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING MEDIA CONTENT USING TEMPORAL SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS - Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method includes generating a reference signature based on a reference signal corresponding to known media, generating sums based on peaks in a media signal corresponding to media, identifying signal peaks based on the generated sums, generating a second signature based on normalized curve features, wherein the normalized curve features respectively correspond to the identified signal peaks at a corresponding temporal locations of the corresponding signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based on a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067713 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus which cooperates with a terminal apparatus to configure a home network system, including: a frame visual attribute setting section configured to set a frame visual attribute to a window provided on a screen to display a reproduced piece of content; a publication section configured to publish a command adapted to request notification of the frame visual attribute set to the window from the terminal apparatus to the terminal apparatus; and a notification section configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the frame visual attribute of the window in response to calling of the command from the terminal apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074703 | DISPLAYING AN ACTIONABLE ELEMENT OVER PLAYING CONTENT - Example methods and systems for displaying actionable elements over playing content, such as video content, are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems identify video content currently playing within a display environment provided by a playback device, and display an actionable element within the display environment provided by the playback device that is based on the identified video content and includes one or more user-selectable options to perform an action associated with the identified video content. Further, in some example embodiments, the methods and systems may perform an action (e.g., present supplemental content and/or information) in response to a selection of one or more of the user-selectable options. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074704 | RECEIVING DEVICE, RECEIVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A receiving device includes: a receiver configured to receive AV content; a feature extractor configured to extract a feature from data of the received AV content; an identification result acquirer configured to acquire an identification result of the AV content identified from the extracted feature by using an Automatic Content Recognition technique; a command acquirer configured to acquire a command for controlling operation of an application program run in conjunction with the AV content in accordance with the acquired identification result; and a controller configured to control operation of the application program in accordance with the acquired command. | 03-12-2015 |
20150089526 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING ADDITIONAL CONTENT AT A MEDIA SYSTEM - A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089527 | VIEWING PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Included is a unit configured to calculate feature points of a scene image of a screen acquired from a television program that is currently on air on a given number of broadcast stations, or a simulcast distribution server at predetermined intervals, and save, in a storage unit, feature point data of a predetermined time period on a broadcast station basis; a unit configured to receive feature point data of an image of a television program currently being watched by a user, the feature point data having been transmitted from a mobile terminal of the user; and a unit configured to check the received feature point data against the feature point data saved in the storage unit and identify a scene image that satisfies a predetermined matching condition. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095931 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA STREAMS - This method for synchronizing a first multimedia stream rendered on a first terminal and a second multimedia stream rendered on a second terminal, comprises a step of generation, from an original audio sequence of the first stream, of original audio fingerprints, and further comprises steps of :
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20150143398 | System and Method for Providing Image-Based Video Service - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing an image-based video service. The present invention provides a system for providing image-based video service, including a cache system configured to store video information that matches image-related data; a fingerprint extraction unit configured to extract the fingerprint of an image corresponding to input image-related data; and a matching unit configured to determine video information that matches the fingerprint of the image extracted by the fingerprint extraction unit; wherein the system for providing image-based video service determines video information, matching image-related data received from a client terminal, via the cache system or the matching unit, and transmits video result information corresponding to the determined video information to the client terminal, and a method using the same. According to the present invention, there are provided a system and method that can accurately determine a video or a frame corresponding to an image over a network, such as the Internet or a mobile communication, in real time and accurately perform playback from the corresponding video or frame. | 05-21-2015 |
20150143399 | CHANNELS AND SERVICES DISPLAY - The availability of a new information service is publicized by displaying an icon in an EPG when the presence of a new information service is detected. A list of new services is then displayed responsive to a user command. When one of the new services is displayed instead of the list. | 05-21-2015 |
20150143400 | Methods and Apparatus for Determining the Operating State of Audio-Video Devices - Methods and apparatus for identifying an operating state of an AV device are described. An example method includes extracting, at a first AV device, data communicated via a data bus coupling a processor of the first AV device to a HDMI interface, the HDMI interface coupled to a second AV device different than the first AV device; analyzing a temporal sequence of the extracted data to determine if additional information is needed from the second AV device to identify a current operating state of the second AV device; when the temporal sequence is missing an expected message related to the current operating state of the second AV device, causing an AV network controller of the first AV device to request information from the second AV device; and analyzing a response from the second AV device including the requested information to identify the current operating state of the second AV device. | 05-21-2015 |
20150150036 | VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a video display device and a method of operating the same. The method includes: executing an enhanced service playing application not dependent on any single channel; obtaining an uncompressed audio video (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; attempting to obtain contents information on the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a part of the uncompressed AV content; transmitting an enhanced service request message to an enhanced service providing server not dependent on any single channel by the enhanced service; receiving an enhanced service from the enhanced service providing server; and playing the enhanced service through the display unit by the enhanced service playing application. | 05-28-2015 |
20150312606 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADAPTIVELY SELECT SENSOR(S) TO GATHER AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA BASED ON A VARIABLE SYSTEM FACTOR - Methods and apparatus to adaptively gather audience information data are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus monitor system factor(s) and select one or more sensors from a plurality of sensors positioned to gather audience measurement data based on the monitored factor(s). Thus, the disclosed methods and apparatus adapt to the conditions they face by selecting an amount and/or type of audience measurement data they gather. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312647 | Programmatically Determining When Credits Appear During a Video in Order to Provide Supplemental Information - Described is a system and method for programmatically determining credits for a video content item. By determining a point at which credits are displayed, a content provider may effectively provide supplementation information in a contextual and non-intrusive manner. In order to determine when credits are displayed, individual frames of content may be decoded and various characteristics of the individual frames may be analyzed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150319468 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING TV PROGRAM BASED ON CONTENT - There is provided a system for recommending a TV program based on content, the system including: a terminal device configured to: decode and output a received broadcast stream; extract affectors by analyzing a video that is being played by the video player; estimate affects that are an implicit response of a viewer of the video; and learn a preference model using an affect matching each of the affectors and transmit the learned preference model to a recommendation server, and a recommendation server configured to: in response to receipt of a preference model, estimate real-time preference by applying the preference model to each of the plurality of channels in real time; and register a specific TV program in a recommendation list and transmit the recommendation list to the terminal device in a case where a real-time preference for the specific TV program is equal to or greater than a predetermined level. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319489 | MEDIA MONITORING USING MULTIPLE TYPES OF SIGNATURES - Media monitoring using multiple types of signatures is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include sending a first indication to a device meter to indicate that media monitored by the meter corresponds to first reference media in response to determining that a media signature of a first type reported by the meter matched a first reference signature associated with the first reference media. Disclosed example methods also include, after sending the first indication, comparing media signatures of a second type reported by the meter with reference signatures of the second type associated with the first reference media. Disclosed example methods further include, in response to determining that the media signatures of the second type fail to match the reference signatures of the second type, sending a second indication to the meter to indicate that the media monitored by the meter no longer corresponds to the first reference media. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319490 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE EXPOSURE TO STREAMING MEDIA - Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a metadata extractor to extract a series of metadata tags associated with media playing on a presentation device. The example apparatus includes a media event detector to detect a media event associated with the media playing on the presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a metadata selector to identify a subset of the series of metadata tags for reporting to a central facility. The subset includes a first metadata tag extracted approximate in time to the media event. The example apparatus further includes a transmitter to transmit the subset of the series of the metadata tags to a central facility. | 11-05-2015 |
20150319500 | MEDIA MONITORING BASED ON PREDICTIVE SIGNATURE CACHING - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for media monitoring based on predictive signature caching are disclosed. Disclosed example methods include processing historical metering data provided by a meter monitoring media presented at a monitored site to predict media exposure to occur at the monitored site during a future monitoring interval. Disclosed example methods also include obtaining reference signatures representative of reference media predicted to be presented at the monitored site during the future monitoring interval. Disclosed example methods further include providing the reference signatures to the meter prior to the future monitoring interval to cache at the meter to perform media monitoring during the future monitoring interval. | 11-05-2015 |
20150382078 | System and Method for Recognition of Items in Media Data and Delivery of Information Related Thereto - The system and method disclosed herein relate to the establishment of both the location and identity of individual items in pictures or videos. Once the one or more items in the picture/video are identified and matched to images in a reference database, the locations of the items are established and additional information relating to the items is accessed. Collectively, the position data and additional data is merged in the electronic pictures or videos and then provided to a user as a merged data stream. Additional functionality related to those identified items can occur when those identified locations are “pointed to”, “clicked” or otherwise selected (e.g., purchase an item, request information, select another video stream, play a game, share the item, rate, “Like”, and the like). | 12-31-2015 |
20160057490 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE EXPOSURE TO STREAMING MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example method includes capturing an image of a video presented by a media device. Video metadata is extracted from the image. The video metadata is converted to an ID3 metadata format. The ID3 formatted metadata is transmitted to a central facility. | 02-25-2016 |
20160066005 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY REMOTE PRESENTATION OF STREAMING MEDIA - Methods and apparatus to identify remote presentation of streaming media are disclosed. An example method includes determining a first identification of streaming data transmitted to a streaming media device. A second identification of media presented by a media presentation device is determined. The first identification is compared to the second identification to determine whether first media identified by the first identification matches second media identified by the second identification. In response to determining that the first media matches the second media, a panelist associated with at least one of the streaming media device and the media presentation device is credited as having been presented the first media by the media presentation device on behalf of the streaming media device. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066032 | ACQUISITION, RECOVERY, AND MATCHING OF UNIQUE INFORMATION FROM FILE-BASED MEDIA FOR AUTOMATED FILE DETECTION - A media fingerprint archive system generates and archives media fingerprints from second media content portions such as commercials. A downstream media measurement system can extract/derive query fingerprints from an incoming signal, and query the media fingerprint archive system whether any of the query fingerprints matches any archived fingerprints. If so, the media measurement system can perform media measurements on a specific secondary media content portion from which the matched query fingerprint is derived. If not, the media measurement system can analyze media characteristics of a media content portion to determine whether the media content portion is a secondary media content portion and perform media measurement if needed to. The media measurement system may send fingerprints from an identified secondary media content portion to the media fingerprint archive system for storage. | 03-03-2016 |
20160080781 | IDENTIFICATION OF CAPTURED VIDEOS - An identification system receives a request from a user device to identify a video captured in a video stream. The identification system identifies a display area captured in the video stream in which the video is displayed. The identification system identifies content include in the display area throughout the stream. Based on the identified content, the identification system creates a fingerprint for the video. The identification system identifies from a plurality of stored fingerprints at least one fingerprint similar to the created fingerprint. The identification system identifies video information associated with the similar fingerprint. The video information is transmitted to the user device and displayed as being video information about the video captured in the stream. | 03-17-2016 |
20160080830 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT INTERACTION - A method comprises receiving content from at least one source, processing the content to identify an object in the content, assigning an identifier to the object based on the processing, permitting viewer selection of the object identifier, and providing additional information for presentation to a viewer of the content responsive to viewer selection of the object identifier. The content in some embodiments comprises live video from at least one live video source. For example, the content may comprise at least a portion of a panoramic video comprising a combination of multiple live videos from respective ones of a plurality of video sources. The panoramic video may be digitally cropped and scaled before a resulting version of the content is provided for presentation to the viewer. A plurality of different digitally cropped and scaled versions of the content from the panoramic video can be generated and made available to the viewer. | 03-17-2016 |
20160088355 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a communication interface unit configured to receive video content, and a genre conceiver configured to extract feature information of an arbitrary frame of the received video content and to conceive a genre of an updated frame with reference to the extracted feature information in response to the frame being updated. | 03-24-2016 |
20160094877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO VERIFY AND/OR CORRECT MEDIA LINEUP INFORMATION - Systems and methods to verify and/or correct media lineup information are disclosed. An example method includes comparing signature data representative of media to recurring segment reference signatures in a signature database. The recurring segment reference signatures are representative of segments of media recurring in multiple different episodes of a same media series. The example method further includes, when the signature data matches one of the recurring segment reference signatures, generating identifying information for the media indicating the media as corresponding to an episode of the media series. | 03-31-2016 |
20160099787 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PARTICULAR MEDIA CONTENT EVENT OF INTEREST THAT IS BEING RECEIVED IN A STREAM OF MEDIA CONTENT - Obscuring systems and methods are operable to obscure an intervening content segment that a user does not wish to view and/or listen to if that particular intervening content segment is again received at a later time. An exemplary embodiment includes at least a content segment obscuring system that samples the decoded stream of information corresponding to an initial portion of the intervening content segment, determines a vector signature of the sampled initial portion of the intervening content segment, wherein the vector signature corresponds to at least one location and an orientation of a vector in a multi-dimensional vector space, and compares the vector signature with a plurality of predefined reference vector signatures. In response to the vector signature substantially corresponding to at least one of the plurality of predefined reference vector signatures, the intervening content segment is obscured with replacement content. | 04-07-2016 |
20160100215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING INTERACTIVE TRIGGER EVENTS - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a media processor identifies a first key and a second key associated with media content received over a network, and prepares a display object according to the first key that includes a selectable object. The media processor transmits a request to a remote server including the second key; the server returns first additional content and control code associated with the second key. The media processor merges the first additional content with the display object to produce an overlay for presentation with the media content in accordance with the control code. The overlay is associated with a provider of the first additional content; the first key is independent of the provider, and the second key corresponds to the provider. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 04-07-2016 |
20160112768 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO BROADCAST CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - Provided herein is a method for providing information by an electronic device. The method can include transmitting identification information of broadcasting content and feature information of the electronic device to an external device; receiving, from the external device, additional information related to the identification information and the feature information; and displaying the additional information together with the broadcasting content. | 04-21-2016 |
20160119672 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA USING IMAGE RECOGNITION - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media using image recognition. An example method to identify media includes capturing an image of a media presentation device in response to an input selection to a user control device, the input selection to cause the user control device to control the media presentation device. The example method also includes, in response to identifying an area of interest in the image, generating media identifying information representative of the media based on the identified area of interest. | 04-28-2016 |
20160119690 | VIDEO RECEPTION DEVICE, VIDEO RECOGNITION METHOD, AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - Video recognition processing on stereoscopic video signals input from an outside is performed. Hence, a video reception device which is configured to transmit and receive data through a communication network includes an input unit, a video extraction unit, a stereoscopic signal generator which is a video signal generator, and a control unit. The stereoscopic signal generator generates, from a partial video extracted by the video extraction unit, stereoscopic video signals of a single method or a plurality of methods different from that of the partial video. The control unit generates content recognition information from at least one of the partial video and the stereoscopic video signals generated by the stereoscopic signal generator, and requests a video recognition device to perform video recognition processing on the content recognition information. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127755 | Distributing Media Content Via Media Channels Based on Associated Content Being Provided Over Other Media Channels - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing access to media content via a media channel based on associated content being provided over a different channel. In some aspects, it is determined that a media identifier corresponds to media content provided over a first media channel. In response to the determination, a notification facilitation system can identify multiple computing devices that have been configured to receive additional media content that is associated with the media content provided over the first media channel. The notification facilitation system can provide access to the additional media content via a second media channel by the identified computing devices in response to identifying the plurality of computing devices. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127759 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - Provided herein is a terminal device including a communication interface configured to receive a moving picture; a fingerprint extractor configured to extract a fingerprint from a frame of the moving picture; a controller configured to detect a target object from the frame, and control the communication interface to transmit the fingerprint to a server, and receive object information corresponding to the transmitted fingerprint from the server; and an outputter configured to output the received object information when content corresponding to the object information is output. | 05-05-2016 |
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20160381434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND ACTING ON EASTER EGGS HIDDEN IN MEDIA ASSETS - Control circuitry may identify a media object in a frame of a media asset. Control circuitry may determine a frequency at which the media object occurs in other frames associated with the media asset. Control circuitry may compare the frequency to a threshold, and may determine, based on the comparing, that the frequency equals or exceeds the threshold. Based on determining that the frequency equals or exceeds the threshold, control circuitry may perform a search of a source external to a source of the media asset, where the search comprises searching for an indication that the media object comprises an Easter egg. Control circuitry may determine whether, based on the performing of the search, the indication was found, and, based on determining that the indication was found, execute a function relating to the Easter egg. | 12-29-2016 |
20160381436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO CONTENT RECOGNITION - System and method for automatically recognizing media contents comprise steps of capturing media content from the Internet and/or devices, extracting fingerprints from captured contents and transferring to the backend servers for identification, and backend servers processing the fingerprints and replying with identified result. | 12-29-2016 |
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