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Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2023
Applicant:

Gracenote, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);

Inventors:

Aneesh Vartakavi, Emeryville, CA (US);

Arthur Findelair, Emeryville, CA (US);

Assignee:

Gracenote, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23418 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/845 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) determining, by a computing system, a mean image of a set of frames of video content; (ii) extracting, by the computing system, a reference template of static content from the mean image; (iii) identifying, by the computing system, the extracted reference template of static content in a frame of the set of frames of the video content; (iv) labeling a segment within the video content as either a program segment or an advertisement segment based on the identifying of the extracted reference template of static content in the frame of the video content; and (v) generating data identifying the labeled segment.


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