Patent ID: 8311390

Claim:
A system for identifying advertisement breaks in digital video files, comprising: a video database for storing digital video files; and an advertisement break identification module operatively coupled to the video database that executes the computer-implemented steps of: retrieving a digital video file form the video database, the digital video file comprising a plurality of frames; generating an edge response comprising calculating the total number of edge pixels associated with an edge of a frame for frames in the plurality of frames comparing the edge response against a predefined edge response threshold value until a particular edge response for a particular frame is less than the predefined edge response threshold; identifying the particular frame as a first frame in an advertisement break; generating an edge response for frames subsequent to the first frame in the identified advertisement break until a particular subsequent edge response for a particular subsequent frame is greater than the predefined edge response threshold; identifying the particular subsequent frame as a last frame in the identified advertisement break; and storing data associated with the first frame and the last frame in the identified advertisement break in the video database and associated with the retrieved digital video file.