Gracenote, Inc.

Lakshika Balasuriya

Aneesh Vartakavi

Andreas Schmidt

Amanmeet Garg

Sharmishtha Gupta

Chin-Ting Ko

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining fingerprint repetition data for a portion of video content, with the fingerprint repetition data including a list of other portions of video content matching the portion of video content and respective reference identifiers for the other portions of video content; (ii) identifying the portion of video content as a program segment rather than an advertisement segment based at least on a number of unique reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content relative to a total number of reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content; (iii) determining that the portion of video content corresponds to a program specified in an electronic program guide using a time stamp of the portion of video content; and (iv) storing an indication of the portion of video content in a data file for the program.

Identifying and labeling segments within video content

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining fingerprint repetition data for a portion of video content, with the fingerprint repetition data including a list of other portions of video content matching the portion of video content and respective reference identifiers for the other portions of video content; (ii) identifying the portion of video content as a program segment rather than an advertisement segment based at least on a number of unique reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content relative to a total number of reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content; (iii) determining that the portion of video content corresponds to a program specified in an electronic program guide using a timestamp of the portion of video content; and (iv) storing an indication of the portion of video content in a data file for the program.

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) retrieving, from a text index, closed captioning repetition data for a segment of a sequence of media content; (ii) generating features using the closed captioning repetition data; (iii) providing the features as input to a classification model, wherein the classification model is configured to output classification data indicative of a likelihood of the features being characteristic of a program segment; (iv) obtaining the classification data output by the classification model; (v) determining a prediction of whether the segment is a program segment using the classification data; and (vi) storing the prediction for the segment in a database.

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Lakshika Balasuriya