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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
Yoshikazu Yamagishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshikazu Yamagishi, Tokyo, JP;
Buffalo Inc., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An advertisement-section detecting apparatus includes: a captioned-section acquisition unit () configured to acquire a captioned section including a caption generated by caption data, on the basis of a temporal position of the caption data; a non-captioned-section acquisition unit () configured to acquire a pattern of a non-captioned section that do not include the caption, on the basis of the captioned section; a memory () configured to store a broadcasting-program template which is a template corresponding to a broadcasting-program format including a main-section format and a peripheral-section format, and which is used for identifying a pattern of a non-captioned section format including the peripheral-section format; an identifying unit () configured to compare the pattern of the non-captioned section and the pattern of the non-captioned section format, and thus to identify the non-captioned section corresponding to the non-captioned section format; and a detector () configured to detect a section corresponding to the peripheral-section format as the peripheral section, from the non-captioned section corresponding to the non-captioned section format.