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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
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
The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection deviceaccording to the present invention includes: a CM segment detection unitthat extracts a cut point, which is a time point where a frame in which the volume of an audio signal of a broadcast program is less than a volume threshold value and the amount of change from a previous frame is at least a pixel change threshold value is played, and detects a CM segment by comparing an interval of the extracted cut point with a CM defined length; a sponsorship credit display segment estimation unitthat estimates, as a sponsorship credit display segment, a predetermined time period before or after at least one continuous CM segment detected by the CM segment detection unit; and an output unitthat outputs information indicating the sponsorship credit display segment.