METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

Patent №

US 10,028,014

Granted

2018-07-17

Filed 2017

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15449160

Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements associated with media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes comparing an amount of audio randomness in an inter-segment audio frame to a random level threshold, the amount of audio randomness being based on a random-factor ratio; and in response to the amount of randomness satisfying the random level threshold, indicating the inter-segment audio frame is associated with the commercial transition.

SpeechH04N 21/4394G06V 20/46G06V 20/49H04H 20/14H04H 60/375H04H 60/48H04H 60/58H04H 60/59+4 more

AI classification

Speech0.99
Machine learning0.28
Planning0.11
AI hardware0.08
Vision0.05
Evolutionary computation0.05
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 415070991

Assignors

WRIGHT, DAVID H., WILSON, SCOTT, SCHWERER, RON, HEFFERNAN, RONAN

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