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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunori Oishi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahito Kawanishi, Tokyo, JP;
Kaoru Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Kunio Kashino, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A CM section within a broadcast program is detected with high accuracy. A CM section detection deviceincludes: a CM section detection unitthat detects one or more CM sections by comparing a volume of a broadcast program with a volume threshold, and generates detected CM sections representing the CM sections that have been detected; and a CM section correction unitthat corrects the detected CM sections based on a sponsorship credit display section that is a section which is included in the broadcast program and in which a sponsorship credit indicating a sponsor of the broadcast program is displayed.