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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2018
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Eric Petajan, Watchung, NJ (US);

Subhabrata Sen, Westfield, NJ (US);

Emir Halepovic, Somerset, NJ (US);

Shichang Xu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignees:

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/154 (2014.01); H04N 19/115 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/154 (2014.11); H04N 19/115 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11);
Abstract

A processing system may obtain a first frame of a first variant associated with a reference copy of a video, where a plurality of variants comprises copies of the video encoded at different bitrates, determine a frame number of the first frame from a visual overlay containing the first frame number, calculate a first image distance between the first frame and a frame of the reference copy having the frame number, determine, from among a plurality of image distances for frames of each variant having the frame number, a closest image distance to the first image distance, the plurality of image distances comprising image distances between frames of the variants and the frame of the reference copy having the frame number, and identify the first frame as being from the first variant in accordance with a variant associated with the first closest image distance.


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