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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
May. 04, 2023
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Taryn Nihei, New York, NY (US);
Giuseppe Manzari, Sunland, CA (US);
Monica Alfaro Vendrell, Barcelona, ES;
Francesc Josep Guitart Bravo, Lleida, ES;
Daniel Brooks, Pasadena, CA (US);
Brian Coburn, Burbank, CA (US);
Anthony M. Accardo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The software code is executed to receive media content including a video and an audio component, recognize the media content as ad-slugged or seamless content, and detect black video frames of the media content. For ad-slugged content, the software code further detects silent video frames, and identifies, using the black video frames and the silent video frames, candidate ad-insertion point(s) and a probability score associated with each, to provide ad-break prediction(s). For seamless content, the software code performs evaluations of blackness transitions between sequential video frames, and one or more evaluations of audio continuity across respective one or more sequences of the black video frames, and identifies, using the black video frames and the evaluations, candidate ad-insertion point(s) and a probability score associated with each to provide ad-break prediction(s). The ad-break prediction(s) are further provided as system outputs.