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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1991
K. K. Video Research, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automatic commercial message (CM) recognition device has an audio data preparing portion (6) for producing audio data from an audio signal contained in a TV program received, a silence data preparing portion (7) for producing silence data from the audio signal contained in the TV program received, an image change detector portion (8) for detecting a change of image on an image screen from a video signal of the TV program received, a control portion (12) for determining a start or an end of a CM when an output of the silence data detecting portion indicates a silence state and the image change detector portion detects a change of an image, and a CM data referencing portion (14) for deriving an audio data from the start or end of the CM and comparing it with a preliminarily stored audio data of the CM.