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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 12, 2016
Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);
Stephen P. Emeott, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Renxiang Li, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments extract features for frames from a video. Then, a sequence of frames is identified based on a pattern analysis of frames based on the features. This pattern may be used to select sentinel features from the sequence of frames. For example, a pattern may include a first sentinel sequence followed by a transitional frame and then a second sentinel sequence. The transitional frame may be a black frame that is used to identify back-to-back sentinel sequences. Then, a sentinel frame that demarks a transition from a first content type to a second content type is identified. For example, the frames on either side of the black frame may be very similar and be identified as sentinel frames that mark a transition from program content to advertisement content. The above process may allow automated detection of sentinel frames that can run without user supervision.