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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Andreas Schmidt, San Pablo, CA (US);
Shashank Merchant, Emeryville, CA (US);
Markus Kurt Peter Cremer, Emeryville, CA (US);
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method that includes a media presentation device (i) generating query fingerprint data representing video frames of a channel being rendered by the media presentation device, and transmitting the generated query fingerprint data from the device over a network to a server, (ii) responsive to transmitting the query fingerprint data to the server, receiving, from the server, channel-icon fingerprint data representing channel icons of multiple channels selected based at least on the server having detected that the query fingerprint data representing the video frames of the channel being rendered by the media presentation device matches the reference fingerprint data representing the frames of the multiple channels of video content, and (iii) responsive to receiving the channel-icon fingerprint data from the server, performing channel-icon fingerprint matching to determine which channel in the multiple channels is the channel being rendered by the media presentation device.