DIGITAL VIDEO SIGNATURE APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH VIDEO PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 8,020,180

Granted

2011-09-13

Filed 2010

Owner

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION

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Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12845660

Digital video signature apparatus and methods for use with video program identification systems are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods identify a video program using a sequence of signatures. Each of the signatures includes a set of centroids corresponding to one of a plurality of frames of the video program. The apparatus and methods compare the sequence of signatures to a set of reference sequences of signatures and identify the video program based on the comparison of the sequence of signatures to the set of reference sequences of signatures.

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AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.40
Machine learning0.16
Knowledge representation0.10
Evolutionary computation0.02
Natural language0.01
Planning0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION

assignment · 251000414

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

merger · 251000463

Assignors

DENG, KEVIN

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

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