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Browsing and Retrieval of Full Broadcast-Quality Video

  • US 20110072466A1
  • Filed: 11/30/2010
  • Published: 03/24/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising steps of:

  • classifying a media collection as program content versus television commercials, wherein the television commercials are presented chronologically separate from the program content and in a same display screen as the program content;

    identifying program segments within classified program content based on synchronizing recognized speech in each identified segment with captioning to extract stories, wherein synchronizing recognized speech comprises;

    recognizing speech in the media collection,generating word timestamps based on the recognized speech, andaligning the captioning with the recognized speech based on the word timestamps;

    analyzing content of a media collection to determine whether speech recognition data or closed captioning data may be used to index the media collection;

    indexing the media collection to create an indexed library based on the identified program segments and synchronized speech;

    receiving at a server a search query to the indexed media collection from a user;

    searching the indexed library to identify a set of candidate program segments based on the search query; and

    presenting at a client device of the user the set of candidate program segments for the user to browse and select.

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