Patent ID: 9723374
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: determining, by a computing device, whether a video content item corresponds to a first type of video content item or to a second type of video content item; decoding, by the computing device to a storage, only a predefined portion of the video content item into a set of individual frames, a duration of the predefined portion being a function of a type of the video content item, the type of the video content item being the first type of video content item or the second type of video content item; performing, by the computing device, optical character recognition (OCR) on one or more frames of the set of individual frames to extract textual information, the performing including determining if particular text appears; determining, by the computing device, a point at which the video content item displays credits based on the textual information; and inserting a marker, by the computing device, in the video content item at the point at which the video content item displays credits, wherein the marker indicates a point to display supplemental information with the video content item, and wherein the supplemental information is not included in the video content item.