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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/14 ; H04N 5/16 ; H04N 5/76 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/14 ; H04N 5/16 ; H04N 5/76 ;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus capable of accurately detecting one or more commercials included in a television broadcast. A commercial candidate segment detector detects a commercial candidate segment on the basis of silent segments and scene change points. A commercial block detector detects a commercial block, which is composed of a plurality of commercial segments and is interposed between one program portion and another, in conformity with numbers of frames of the individual commercial candidate segments detected by the commercial candidate segment detector, and then outputs to a switch a control signal based on the result of such commercial block detection.