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Systems and methods for identifying pre-inserted and/or potential advertisement breaks in a video sequence

  • US 8,311,390 B2
  • Filed: 05/14/2009
  • Issued: 11/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for identifying advertisement breaks in digital video files, comprising:

  • a video database for storing digital video files; and

    an advertisement break identification module operatively coupled to the video database that executes the computer-implemented steps of;

    retrieving a digital video file form the video database, the digital video file comprising a plurality of frames;

    generating an edge response comprising calculating the total number of edge pixels associated with an edge of a frame for frames in the plurality of frames comparing the edge response against a predefined edge response threshold value until a particular edge response for a particular frame is less than the predefined edge response threshold;

    identifying the particular frame as a first frame in an advertisement break;

    generating an edge response for frames subsequent to the first frame in the identified advertisement break until a particular subsequent edge response for a particular subsequent frame is greater than the predefined edge response threshold;

    identifying the particular subsequent frame as a last frame in the identified advertisement break; and

    storing data associated with the first frame and the last frame in the identified advertisement break in the video database and associated with the retrieved digital video file.

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