ARRANGEMENT FOR AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA, ESPECIALLY FOR IDENTIFYING AND VERIFYING AIRING OF TELEVISION BROADCAST PROGRAMS

Patent №

US 5,200,822

Granted

1993-04-06

Filed 1991

Owner

NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07690111

Data are added invisibly to the active video component of a television signal by a modulated carrier. The data, upon recovery, may be used for numerous purposes, including network signaling, data transmission, program identification, remote machine control, broadcast verification, and signal quality detection and measurement.

VisionH04H 20/34H04N 7/081H04N 17/00H04H 20/12H04H 20/14H04H 60/37

AI classification

Vision0.81
Evolutionary computation0.01
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.

assignment · 57450308

Assignors

BRONFIN, KENNETH A., MAHRER, STEPHEN M., WILSON, W. ROBIN, DAVENPORT, FRANCIS A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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