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System and method for audio hot spotting

  • US 7,953,751 B2
  • Filed: 10/12/2009
  • Issued: 05/31/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of searching for audio features within multimedia files, comprising:

  • specifying one or more classes of audio sounds, each of the classes comprising acoustic characteristics of a range of sounds;

    searching an audio track of a multimedia file to detect occurrences of the classes; and

    retrieving at least a segment of the searched multimedia file, if the segment contains at least one occurrence of the classes.

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