Patent ID: 8917937
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A media monitoring method comprising: determining, with a processor, a synthetic image from an input image representative of a media presentation including primary media combined with secondary media, the synthetic image comprising a synthetic image subregion encoded to represent a direction of motion associated with a corresponding subregion of the input image; segmenting, with the processor, the synthetic image into a plurality of synthetic image regions, a first synthetic image region of the synthetic image being formed to include a first plurality of connected synthetic image subregions of the synthetic image together exhibiting a first type of motion direction characteristic from among a plurality of types of motion direction characteristics; and when a shape of the first synthetic image region corresponds to a first shape, processing a first region of the input image corresponding to the first synthetic image region to identify the primary media included in the media presentation.