Arris Enterprises LLC

Motorola Mobility LLC

Google Inc.

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

General Instrument Corporation

Motorola Corporation

Arris Technology, Inc.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Andrew Wireless Systems Gmbh

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Arris International IP Ltd

Commscope UK Limited

Faisal Ishtiaq

Renxiang Li

Anthony J Braskich

Kevin Lynn Baum

Benedito J Fonseca, Jr

Stephen P Emeott

Alfonso Martinez Smith

Michael L Needham

Bhavan Gandhi

Venugopal Vasudevan

Ehsan Younessian

Isselmou Ould Dellahy

Andrew J Aftelak

Shih-Ta Hsiang

Benjamin Spier

Jr Fonseca Benedito J

Kevin L Baum

Benedito J Fonseca

Narayanan Venkitaraman

Jehan Wickramasuriya

Aggelos K Katsaggelos

Paul C Davis

Zhu Li

Hiren M Mandalia

Raghavan Subramaniyan

Crysta J Metcalf

Ashley B Novak

Tamer Shanableh

Anthony R May

Yong Wang

Tyrone D Bekiares

Kevin J O'Connell

Loren J Rittle

Jay J Williams

Faramak Vakil

Mir Farooq Ali

Santosh S Basapur

Magdi A Mohamed

Dale William Russell

Dragan Boscovic

James R Talley

Irfan Nasir

Rohit S Bodas

Sevket Derin Babacan

Shivajit Mohapatra

Mohamed I Ahmed

Myungcheol Doo

Shan Yu

Andrew Aftelak

Mark R Trandel

Dale W Russell

Sevket D Babacan

Mir F Ali

Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining an introduction portion in a video program are described herein. A method may determine first and second hard-matching pairs of video segments in first and second video content such that video fingerprints of the first hard-matching pair match and video fingerprints of the second hard-matching pair also match. The method may classify a third pair of video segments in the first and second video content, sequentially between the first and second hard-matching pairs, as a soft-matching pair of video segments of an introduction portion. The method may use the classification of the third pair of video segments as a soft-matching pair to determine a model configured to determine that a pair of video segments in two video content items are a soft-matching pair of video segments of an introduction portion.

Systems, methods, and devices for determining an introduction portion in a video program

Particular embodiments provide a system to determine ad segments in a video asset to enable subsequent ad replacement in video programs. The system is included in a multiple service operator (MSO) system that broadcasts video programs via a broadcast schedule. The MSO may not know the location of the ad segments in the video asset. To determine the ad segments, the MSO uses a classifier to classify video program segments and advertisements in the video asset. The classifier may be integrated with an nDVR system. By integrating with the nDVR system, particular embodiments may determine user behavior information, such as trick play commands, from the nDVR system. The classifier may use the user behavior information to detect ad segments in the video asset. In one embodiment, the classifier may fuse outputs from different detectors to detect and validate ad segments in the video program.

Video classification using user behavior from a network digital video recorder

Systems and methods for determining the location of advertisements in multimedia assets are disclosed. A method includes obtaining an audio signature corresponding to a time period of a multimedia asset, identifying a match between the obtained audio signature and one or more stored audio signatures, comparing programming data of the multimedia assets of the obtained audio signature and the matching audio signatures, and determining whether the time period of the multimedia asset contains an advertisement based on the comparison of the programming data of the multimedia assets of the obtained audio signature and the one or more matching audio signatures. Another method includes identifying matches between a plurality of obtained audio signatures and a plurality of stored audio signatures, and determining whether consecutive time periods of the multimedia asset contain an advertisement based on a number of consecutive matching audio signatures of the plurality of stored audio signatures.

System and method for detecting advertisements in multimedia assets

Disclosed is a method of associating, at a secondary device, secondary media content with primary media content being output at a primary device. The method includes receiving, at the secondary device, first information based upon the primary content being output at the primary device, wherein the first information includes at least one of an audio and a visual signal, determining at the secondary device second information corresponding to the first information, receiving at the secondary device one or more portions of secondary media content that have been made available by a third device, determining at the secondary device whether one or more of the portions of the secondary media content match one or more portions of the second information, and taking at least one further action upon determining that there is a match.

Identifying media on a mobile device

A method of detecting frames in a video that demarcate a pre-determined type of video segment within the video is provided. The method includes identifying visually distinctive candidate marker frames within the video, grouping the candidate marker frames into a plurality of groups based on visual similarity, computing a collective score for each of the groups based on temporal proximity of each of the candidate marker frames within the group to related events occurring within the video, and selecting at least one of the groups based on the collective proximity scores as marker frames that demarcate the pre-determined type of video segment. A video processing electronic device and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for performing the method are also provided.

Detection of demarcating segments in video

Methods and systems are provided for bitrate adaptation of a video asset to be streamed to a client device for playback. The method includes selecting a representation from a manifest which expresses a set of representations available for each chunk of the video asset and generating a dynamic manifest for the video asset in which the representation selected for the at least one chunk is recommended for streaming to the client device. The selection of the representation recommended for the chunk may be based on at least one of historic viewing behavior of previous viewers of the chunk, content analysis information for the chunk, a level of available network bandwidth, a level of available network storage, and data rate utilization information of network resources including current, average, peak, and minimum data rate of network resources.

Method for dynamically managing content delivery

Provided herein are methods and systems for improved accessibility scoring for content items. A predicted accessibility score may be based on a plurality of multimodal features present within a content item. The plurality of multimodal features may include video features (e.g., based on video/image analysis), audio features (e.g., based on audio analysis), text-based features (e.g., based on closed-captioning analysis), features indicated by metadata (e.g., duration, genre, etc.), a combination thereof, and/or the like. A predicted accessibility score for a content item may indicate how accessible the content item may be for persons who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, cognitively impaired, etc., as well as for persons who desire to view content that requires less visual attention and/or audio attention as the case may be.

Systems and methods for improved content accessibility scoring

A method for creating derivative advertisements is provided. The method includes identifying a visual element based on an analysis of a primary advertisement asset such that the visual element is representative of a branding message provided within the primary advertisement. The method also includes identifying a call-to-action (CTA) data element based on the analysis and creating a derivative advertisement asset having the visual element and CTA data element. A system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing software for executing the method are also provided.

Creating derivative advertisements

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