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Iterative, maximally probable, batch-mode commercial detection for audiovisual content

  • US 8,724,967 B2
  • Filed: 09/14/2012
  • Issued: 05/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions to perform a method for detecting a commercial in a set of audiovisual content spanning a duration of time, the method comprising:

  • selecting a candidate time within the duration of time spanned by the set of audiovisual content,wherein the candidate time is identified based on the detection of one or more predetermined cues in a first set of cues, andwherein the candidate time represents a possible boundary time of a commercial;

    assigning a value to the candidate time; and

    analyzing the candidate time to determine a likelihood that the candidate time is a commercial boundary time,wherein the analysis is performed on processing circuitry and includes;

    adjusting the value based on one or more cues in a second set of cues occurring within a time interval proximate to the candidate time, andfurther adjusting the value based on one or more characteristics of audiovisual content and associated probabilities.

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