Patent ID: 6577346
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04H,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
In a management device associated with a display device that can display video images, a method for identifying a video segment as being a particular known commercial such that the management device can provide a viewer with access to additional information associated with the particular known commercial, the method comprising the steps of:receiving video data representing the video segment, the video data including video image data; analyzing a pixel intensity of one or more frames of the video image data with discrete cosine analysis to automatically identify a pattern associated with the video segment; comparing the identified pattern against a database of known patterns representative of individual video segments that are known to be commercials; matching the identified pattern with a particular known pattern included in the database of known patterns so as to identify the video segment as being a particular known commercial; and in response to identifying the video segment as being the particular known commercial, modifying an image displayed on the display device so as to provide the viewer with access to additional information associated with the particular known commercial.