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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1998
Taro Suito, Kanagawa, JP;
Takao Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Ohta, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiya Akiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Noboru Murabayashi, Saitama, JP;
Naohisa Arai, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Tomita, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A commercial detector includes a soundless section detecting circuit which detects a soundless section of an audio signal S,and a scene change detecting circuit which detects a scene change point of an image from a video signal S,during the soundless section detected by the soundless section detecting circuit. A commercial section detecting circuit detects whether a time interval of the scene change points detected by the scene change detecting circuit agrees with a predetermined rule. A tuner detects a sound multiplexing mode S,of an audio signal received.