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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
May. 13, 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 segment in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection deviceaccording to the present invention includes: a related phrase storage unitthat stores related phrases included in announcement of a sponsorship credit display and related to the sponsorship credit display, in association with estimation periods; a voice recognition unitthat performs voice recognition on an audio signal of the broadcast program; a related phrase detection unitthat detects a stored related phrase from results of the voice recognition; a sponsorship credit display segment estimation unitthat, using an appearance time of the detected related phrase as a start point, estimates a period corresponding to the estimation period stored in association with the detected related phrase as a sponsorship credit display segment; and a detection unitthat, among estimated sponsorship credit display segments, detects a segment that continues for at least a predetermined time period as a sponsorship credit display segment.