Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Media fingerprinting for content determination and retrieval
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Application No.: US12752979Application Date: 2010-04-01
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Publication No.: US09264785B2Publication Date: 2016-02-16
- Inventor: Dominic S. Mallinson
- Applicant: Dominic S. Mallinson
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
- Current Assignee: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04N7/173
- IPC: H04N7/173 ; H04N21/8352 ; H04N21/4722 ; G06F17/30 ; G06K9/00 ; H04N21/44

Abstract:
Audio fingerprinting and other media matching technologies can be used to identify broadcast media, such as television shows and radio broadcasts. A user device can record image, audio, and/or video information and upload information to a matching service that is able to use matching technology to identify the media and provide supplemental content or information to the user. The user might receive information identifying a product in an advertisement, identifying an actor on screen in a movie at a particular time, or other such information. In some embodiments, the user can receive access to a digital copy of the captured media, such as the ability to download a copy of a program in which a user expressed interest. Since a user might capture media information after the point of interest, a device can buffer a window of recently captured media in order to attempt to identify the intended media.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110247042A1 MEDIA FINGERPRINTING FOR CONTENT DETERMINATION AND RETRIEVAL Public/Granted day:2011-10-06
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