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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2023
Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Ray Killick, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Jayasri Devalapalli, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Muhammad Asif Raza, Norcross, GA (US);
Ramkumar Krishnan, Marietta, GA (US);
Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure reduce visual artifacts and provide robust video signals to end-user equipment. According to an aspect, a system includes a splice point controller that analyzes video to detect and compensate for content boundary misalignments. The splice point controller can process video streams by analyzing splice point parameters and/or dynamically updating adjustment values associated with splice points to ensure appropriate transitions from primary content to secondary or alternate content. After determining an adjustment value for a splice point, the splice point controller can provide splice point adjustment feedback to a signal processing engine and/or to a secondary content source as part of synchronizing outputs of a transcoder farm and/or the secondary content source. For example, the splice point controller can operate to align a splice point adjustment value associated with an SCTE-35 descriptor with an actual live splice point time that is included with a live broadcast.