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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described to detect a location to place an advertisement in a media asset, the method comprising, identifying a plurality of points in a video frame of a media asset, detecting a color associated with each point of the plurality of points, calculating a change in color between each point of the plurality of points, comparing the change in color between each point of the plurality of points with a threshold, identifying, based on the comparing, an area within the frame that constitutes a surface; and selecting an advertisement to be placed on the surface.