Method of using transcript information to identifiy and learn commerical portions of a program
First Claim
1. A method of identifying commercial segments during a program comprising the steps of:
- a. using transcript information associated with the program;
b. detecting “
non-stop”
words in the transcript information during a first time period which occur more than a predetermined number of times;
c. detecting “
non-stop”
words in the transcript information during a second time period which occur more than a predetermined number of times; and
d. comparing the non-stop words detected during the first time period and the “
non-stop”
words detected during the second time period.
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Abstract
Advertisers want to deliver their message in a relatively short period of time. This leads to the product name, company name and other identifying features being repeated frequently during a commercial broadcast. Transcript information can be used to detect commercials by detecting frequently occurring words in the commercials. This can also be used to identify an individual commercial from other commercials. Once the individual commercials have been identified, the transcript information corresponding to each commercial can be stored in a database to identify the commercial in subsequent broadcasts, or to provide a search mechanism for searching a particular commercial in the database.
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45 Claims
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1. A method of identifying commercial segments during a program comprising the steps of:
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a. using transcript information associated with the program;
b. detecting “
non-stop”
words in the transcript information during a first time period which occur more than a predetermined number of times;
c. detecting “
non-stop”
words in the transcript information during a second time period which occur more than a predetermined number of times; and
d. comparing the non-stop words detected during the first time period and the “
non-stop”
words detected during the second time period. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of learning and storing commercial segments which occur during a program comprising the steps of:
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a. identifying a possible commercial segment which occurs during the program;
b. comparing “
non-stop”
words of the possible commercial segment with “
non-stop”
words of each of a list of probable commercial segments previously identified to determine at least one matching probable commercial segment;
c. comparing transcript text of the possible commercial segment with transcript text of the at least one matching probable commercial segment;
d. storing the transcript text which is common to both the possible commercial segment and the at least one matching probable commercial segment;
e. removing the at least one matching stored probable commercial segment from the list of probable commercial segments; and
f. adding the at least one matching probable commercial segment to a list of candidate commercial segments. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of learning and storing commercial segments which occur during a program comprising the steps of:
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a. identifying a possible commercial segment which occurs during the program;
b. comparing “
non-stop”
words of the possible commercial segment with “
non-stop”
words of each of a list of candidate commercial segments previously identified to determine at least one matching candidate commercial segment;
c. comparing transcript text of the possible commercial segment with transcript text of the at least one matching candidate commercial segment;
d. storing the transcript text which is common to both the possible commercial segment and the at least one matching candidate commercial segment;
e. removing the at least one matching candidate commercial segment from the list of candidate commercial segments; and
f. adding the at least one matching candidate commercial segment to a list of found commercial segments. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method of learning and storing commercial segments which occur during a program comprising the steps of:
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a. identifying a possible commercial segment which occurs during the program;
b. comparing “
non-stop”
words of the possible commercial segment with “
non-stop”
words of each of a list of found commercial segments previously identified to determine at least one matching found commercial segment;
c. comparing the transcript text of the possible commercial segment with transcript text of the at least one matching found commercial segment;
d. storing the transcript text which is common to both the possible commercial segment and the at least one matching found commercial segment; and
e. incrementing a counter which indicates the frequency of occurrence of the at least one matching found commercial segment. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method of retrieving a stored commercial segment comprising the steps of:
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a. identifying at least one non-stop word indicative of a desired commercial segment;
b. identifying stored commercial segments which correspond to the identified non-stop word; and
c. outputting the identified stored commercial segments which correspond to the identified non-stop words. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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