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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Nishith Kumar Sinha, Mableton, GA (US);
Donald Jude Loheide, Mableton, GA (US);
Matthew Paul Giles, Marietta, GA (US);
Karl-Christian Sebastian Wolff-Ingham, Decatur, GA (US);
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and/or techniques for synchronization of dial testing and audience response utilizing automatic content recognition (ACR) are described. Synchronized dial testing and audience response techniques may utilize a system that is operable to perform ACR and that may implement an abstraction layer. An ACR system may be operable to detect a desired portion (e.g., a frame or scene) of a program that is streaming or communicated over a live network or broadcast feed, to a smart TV for example. Synchronized dial testing and audience response techniques may be employed to initiate an interactive event or application that appears on a smart TV in response to a detected point or portion of a program, such that the content presented by the application is synchronized to the content of the live network or broadcast feed.