Patent ID: 8612544
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. Recognition unit, comprising a processor for executing instructions for recognizing audiovisual portions of audiovisual content from at least a first audiovisual programme in at least a second audiovisual programme received, said audiovisual portions serving as synchronization signals, each of said audiovisual portions of audiovisual content consisting of at least one of the following audiovisual portions: a picture, a piece of a picture, a sound and any combination of at least two of said audiovisual portions, and said at least a first audiovisual programme and said at least a second audiovisual programme, being audio and/or video, comprising an audiovisual content transmitted to users, said recognition unit comprising: a reception module for receiving said at least a second audiovisual programme and at least a first audiovisual programme, said at least a first audiovisual programme comprising at least one audiovisual portion of audiovisual content which at least one audiovisual portion is also comprised in said at least one second audiovisual programme, said at least a first audiovisual programme being received by said reception module prior to reception of said at least a second audiovisual programme, a reception module for reception of recognition elements and a recording module for recording in a storage space, said recognition elements comprising at least one audiovisual portion of audiovisual content of said at least a first audiovisual programme which at least one audiovisual portion is also comprised in said at least a second audiovisual programme, a detection module for detecting said synchronization signals in said at least a second audiovisual programme received by means of said recognition elements stored in said storage space, by recognition in the audiovisual content of said at least a second audiovisual programme received, of said at least one audiovisual portion, extracted from the audiovisual content of said at least a first audiovisual programme, said recognition elements further comprising instructions for extraction of said at least one audiovisual portion from said at least a first audiovisual programme previously received by the reception module, which at least one audiovisual portion is also comprised in said at least a second audiovisual programme, and in that said recording module directly extracts said at least one audiovisual portion of said at least a first audiovisual programme according to said instructions and records said at least one audiovisual portion in the storage space, and a transmission module for transmitting action instructions in case of said detecting said synchronization signals in said at least a second audiovisual programme, said action instructions triggering at least one action.