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Synthesizing A Presentation From Multiple Media Clips
20 Oct 22
In an example implementation, a method is described.
Dale T. Roberts, Randall E. Cook, Markus K. Cremer
Filed: 30 Jun 22
Utility
Methods and Apparatus for Audio Equalization Based on Variant Selection
13 Oct 22
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization based on variant selection.
Robert Coover, Joseph Renner, Cameron A. Summers
Filed: 22 Jun 22
Utility
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11 Oct 22
Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed to generate light control information.
Markus Kurt Cremer, Robert Coover, Zafar Rafii, Aneesh Vartakavi, Andreas Schmidt, Todd Hodges
Filed: 19 Jul 21
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4 Oct 22
Example systems and methods for automated cover song identification are disclosed.
Markus K. Cremer, Zafar Rafii, Robert Coover, Prem Seetharaman
Filed: 7 Oct 20
Utility
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22 Sep 22
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media.
Robert Coover, Matthew James Wilkinson, Jeffrey Scott, Yongju Hong
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
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13 Sep 22
In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a vehicle-based media system includes (a) receiving audio content; (b) causing one or more speakers to output the received audio content; (c) using a microphone of the vehicle-based media system to capture the output audio content; (d) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (e) identifying a geographic location associated with the identified reference audio content; and (f) based at least on the identified geographic location associated with the identified reference audio content, outputting, via the user interface of the vehicle-based media system, a prompt to navigate to the identified geographic location.
Nisarg A. Modi
Filed: 19 Aug 20
Utility
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8 Sep 22
Methods and systems for disambiguating musical artist names are disclosed.
Aneesh Vartakavi, Konstantinos Antonio Dimitriou
Filed: 16 Mar 21
Utility
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8 Sep 22
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to fingerprint an audio signal.
Alexander Topchy, Christen V. Nielsen, Jeremey M. Davis
Filed: 4 Mar 21
Utility
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8 Sep 22
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) extracting, by a computing system, features from media content; (ii) generating, by the computing system, repetition data for respective portions of the media content using the features, with repetition data for a given portion including a list of other portions of the media content matching the given portion; (iii) determining, by the computing system, transition data for the media content; (iv) selecting, by the computing system, a portion within the media content using the transition data; (v) classifying, by the computing system, the portion as either an advertisement segment or a program segment using repetition data for the portion; and (vi) outputting, by the computing system, data indicating a result of the classifying for the portion.
Todd J. Hodges, Andreas Schmidt, Sharmishtha Gupta
Filed: 7 Oct 21
Utility
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6 Sep 22
Example methods and systems for indexing fingerprints are described.
Matthew James Wilkinson
Filed: 6 Mar 20
Utility
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18 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) while a media playback device of a vehicle is playing back content received on a first channel, generating, by the media playback device, a query fingerprint using second content received on a second channel; (ii) sending, by the media playback device, the query fingerprint to a server that maintains a reference database containing a plurality of reference fingerprints; (iii) receiving, by the media playback device from the server, identifying information corresponding to a reference fingerprint of the plurality of reference fingerprints that matches the query fingerprint; and (iv) while the media playback device is playing back the first content received on the first channel, providing, by the media playback device for display, at least a portion of the identifying information.
John M. Qin, Suresh Jeyachandran, Damon P. Fasching
Filed: 5 May 22
Utility
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18 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a vehicle-based media system includes (a) receiving audio content; (b) causing one or more speakers to output the received audio content; (c) using a microphone of the vehicle-based media system to capture the output audio content; (d) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (e) identifying visual content based at least on the identified reference audio content; and (f) outputting, via a user interface of the vehicle-based media system, the identified visual content.
Nisarg A. Modi
Filed: 2 May 22
Utility
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18 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining fingerprint repetition data for a portion of video content, with the fingerprint repetition data including a list of other portions of video content matching the portion of video content and respective reference identifiers for the other portions of video content; (ii) identifying the portion of video content as a program segment rather than an advertisement segment based at least on a number of unique reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content relative to a total number of reference identifiers within the list of other portions of video content; (iii) determining that the portion of video content corresponds to a program specified in an electronic program guide using a timestamp of the portion of video content; and (iv) storing an indication of the portion of video content in a data file for the program.
Amanmeet Garg, Sharmishtha Gupta, Andreas Schmidt, Lakshika Balasuriya, Aneesh Vartakavi
Filed: 13 Aug 21
Utility
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16 Aug 22
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed.
Michael Jeffrey, Markus K. Cremer, Dong-In Lee
Filed: 10 Sep 20
Utility
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16 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) retrieving, from a text index, closed captioning repetition data for a segment of a sequence of media content; (ii) generating features using the closed captioning repetition data; (iii) providing the features as input to a classification model, wherein the classification model is configured to output classification data indicative of a likelihood of the features being characteristic of a program segment; (iv) obtaining the classification data output by the classification model; (v) determining a prediction of whether the segment is a program segment using the classification data; and (vi) storing the prediction for the segment in a database.
Aneesh Vartakavi, Lakshika Balasuriya, Chin-Ting Ko
Filed: 25 Jun 21
Utility
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11 Aug 22
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic content delivery based on vehicle navigational attributes.
Markus K. Cremer, Suresh Jeyachandran, Paul Emmanuel Quinn, Roger Tsai
Filed: 2 May 22
Utility
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11 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) retrieving, from a text index, closed captioning repetition data for a segment of a sequence of media content; (ii) generating features using the closed captioning repetition data; (iii) providing the features as input to a classification model, wherein the classification model is configured to output classification data indicative of a likelihood of the features being characteristic of a program segment; (iv) obtaining the classification data output by the classification model; (v) determining a prediction of whether the segment is a program segment using the classification data; and (vi) storing the prediction for the segment in a database.
Aneesh Vartakavi, Lakshika Balasuriya, Chin-Ting Ko
Filed: 25 Jun 21
Utility
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11 Aug 22
Example systems and methods for automated generation of banner images are disclosed.
Aneesh Vartakavi
Filed: 18 Sep 21
Utility
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9 Aug 22
In an example implementation, a method is described.
Dale T. Roberts, Randall E. Cook, Markus K. Cremer
Filed: 18 Feb 21
Utility
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4 Aug 22
In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a computing device includes (a) determining that a ride-sharing session is active; (b) in response to determining the ride-sharing session is active, using a microphone of the computing device to capture audio content; (c) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (d) determining that the ride-sharing session is inactive; and (e) outputting an indication of the identified reference audio content.
Nisarg A. Modi
Filed: 26 Apr 22