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Interactive Video Distribution Systems > Use Surveying Or Monitoring (e.g., Program Or Channel Watched) > By Passively Monitoring Receiver Operation > By Use Of Pattern Recognition Or Signature By Use Of Pattern Recognition Or SignatureBy Use Of Pattern Recognition Or Signature patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/08/07 - 20070261073 - System and method for monitoring video data A system and method for real-time monitoring of programming content transmission over a broadcast network. The identification and analysis of data embedded within a broadcast signal allows a broadcaster to determine whether or not their content is actually being broadcast over the network as intended. The embedded data may include ... 08/23/07 - 20070199012 - Component identification method and targeting method using the same The present invention relates to component identification method using an instance metadata identifier with a contents reference identifier (CRID) and a targeting method using the same. The present invention is a method for identifying components having identical contents and different bit expressions by assigning an identical CRID to each of ... 08/02/07 - 20070180459 - Methods and apparatus to identify viewing information Methods and apparatus to identify viewing information are disclosed. In an example method, at least one media signal delivered by a content terminal such as a set top box to a media presentation device such as a television is detected. The media signal includes pixel information that is used to ... 06/21/07 - 20070143778 - Determining popularity ratings using social and interactive applications for mass media Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products provide social and interactive applications for mass media based on real time ambient-audio and/or video identification. In some implementations, a method includes: receiving descriptors identifying ambient audio associated with a media broadcast; comparing the descriptors to one or more reference descriptors; and determining ... 05/17/07 - 20070113242 - Selective post-processing of compressed digital video The primary issue regarding the transmission of digital video to automobiles is limited bandwidth. To help combat bandwidth issues, compression techniques have been developed to reduce the high bit rate required for transmission and storage. However, methods for improving the perceived quality of digital imagery, particularly at low bit rates, ... 04/12/07 - 20070083883 - Methods and apparatus to detect a blank frame in a digital video broadcast signal Methods and apparatus to detect blank images in a digital video broadcast signal are disclosed. An example method of detecting a blank image includes analyzing DC values of luminance blocks associated with a frame to determine a number of the luminance blocks having substantially the same DC value; and identifying ... 04/05/07 - 20070079322 - Selectively overlaying a user interface atop a video signal Overlaying visual interface information atop a video signal without obscuring desired features of the video signal. The video signal may contain one or more pre-selected features, such as text. Two or more display sections equally divide the video signal, and any pre-selected features in the video signal are identified as ... 03/01/07 - 20070050805 - Transmission of pathological data patterns A method and apparatus is presented for reducing or eliminating pathological data patterns from signals for transmission over optical communications systems. One embodiment includes a decoder/deserializer configured to receive an encoded serial digital signal, a ditherer configured to dither a least significant bit of each digital data word, and a ... 11/30/06 - 20060271947 - Creating fingerprints A method and system for the determination of new video segments is presented in which candidate sequences are recognized and stored, and analysis is performed on fingerprints of segments of the candidate sequences to isolate repeating video sequences, without prior knowledge of those repeating sequences. The repeating sequences are then ... 10/19/06 - 20060236333 - Music detection device, music detection method and recording and reproducing apparatus A method and device for detecting music parts within a content at relatively low cost of arithmetic operations. The device includes a first power calculating section for calculating a sum of powers of respective channels of two-channel sound, a second power calculating section for calculating a difference between the powers ... 08/31/06 - 20060195861 - Methods and apparatus for identifying audio/video content using temporal signal characteristics Methods and apparatus for identifying audio/video content using temporal characteristics of a signal are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods detect a plurality of signal features of a media signal derived from audio/video content and calculate time intervals between a plurality of those signal features to generate signatures. The signatures ... 08/31/06 - 20060195860 - Acting on known video entities detected utilizing fingerprinting In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method for detecting and acting on a known video entity within a video stream. The method includes receiving a video stream and continually creating statistical parameterized representations for windows of the video stream. The statistical parameterized representation windows are continually compared ... 08/31/06 - 20060195859 - Detecting known video entities taking into account regions of disinterest In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method for specifying regions of interest for video event detection. The method includes receiving a video stream and identifying a region of interest in a video stream. The region of interest is a portion of at least one image of the ... 08/31/06 - 20060195858 - Video object recognition device and recognition method, video annotation giving device and giving method, and program Visual feature information which is information representing a numerical value of a visual feature of an object and additional information which is information added to the object are stored in association with each other. Partial image data which is image data of a partial area of a video image is ... 04/20/06 - 20060085812 - Method for monitoring television usage Disclosed is a method for monitoring usage of a programmable video recording device that records television program segments selected by on-screen graphics. In the method, an on-screen graphic associated with selecting a television program segment is intercepted. The selected television program segment is recognized using the intercepted on-screen graphic, and ... 01/26/06 - 20060020958 - Apparatus and method for robust classification of audio signals, and method for establishing and operating an audio-signal database, as well as computer program An apparatus for producing a fingerprint signal from an audio signal includes a means for calculating energy values for frequency bands of segments of the audio signal which are successive in time, so as to obtain, from the audio signal, a sequence of vectors of energy values, a means for ... 12/22/05 - 20050283793 - Advertising detection method and related system for detecting advertising according to specific beginning/ending images of advertising sections A method and related system for detecting insertion points of advertising sections within a video signal. When broadcasting media provide program services, frames of specific images are inserted before or after an advertising section to indicate beginnings or endings of the advertising sections. The present invention is capable of learning/storing ... 11/24/05 - 20050262528 - Smart car radio The present invention provides a large capacity, user defined audio content delivery system. The system delivers uninterrupted music and delivers information content (e.g., news by evaluating and encoding an input audio stream while outputting another stream. Undesirable audio content (e.g., advertisements and unwanted news) are not present in the output ... 10/13/05 - 20050229204 - Signal processing method and arragement Disclosed is a method of processing an information signal. The method comprises the steps of determining (302) a fingerprint of the information signal; obtaining (308) at least a first property value of a predetermined first property of the information signal, the at least first property value being stored in relation ... 09/08/05 - 20050198661 - Display A display arrangement comprises an image display device having two or more sets of images for display; a camera directed towards positions adopted by users viewing the display; a face detector for detecting human faces in images captured by the camera, the face detector being arranged to detect faces in ... 08/04/05 - 20050172312 - Detecting known video entities utilizing fingerprints In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method for detecting a known video entity within a video stream. The method includes receiving a video stream and continually creating statistical parameterized representations for windows of the video stream. The statistical parameterized representation windows are continually compared to windows of ... 06/09/05 - 20050125821 - Method and apparatus for characterizing a video segment and determining if a first video segment matches a second video segment A method and apparatus for determining if a first video segment matches a second video segment is provided herein. Each video segment to be compared has an associated metric (HR), which is a function over time as the conditional entropy between frame fk and previous frame fk−1. A comparison of ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |