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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:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Applicants:
R Paul Johnson, Burlington, MA (US);
Raymond Lau, Charlestown, MA (US);
Inventors:
R Paul Johnson, Burlington, MA (US);
Raymond Lau, Charlestown, MA (US);
Assignee:
Ramp Holdings, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G11B 27/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for using speech to text for detecting commercials and aligning edited episodes with transcripts. A method includes, receiving an original video or audio having a transcript, receiving an edited video or audio of the original video or audio, applying a speech-to-text process to the received original video or audio having a transcript, applying a speech-to-text process to the received edited video or audio, and applying an alignment to determine locations of the edits.