Patent ID: 8340498

Claim:
A method for processing video content having a plurality of frames, said video content comprising textual and non-textual elements, said method comprising: under control of one or more computing systems configured with executable instructions, analyzing a plurality of sequential frames of the video content to identify one or more pre-defined textual elements within at least one of the frames, said analyzed frames being temporally proximal to each other, said at least one of the frames representing a start frame; analyzing a plurality of successive frames subsequent to said start frame to detect an absence of the pre-defined textual elements within at least one of the frames, said analyzed frames being temporally proximal to each other, said at least one of the frames representing an end frame, said analyzing the plurality of sequential frames and said analyzing the plurality of successive frames comprising: filtering each of the frames to substantially remove the non-textual elements from the frame; scanning the filtered frame to identify one or more of the textual elements; and comparing the identified textual elements to the pre-defined textual elements; and calculating an offset value relative to a beginning of the video content and based on the end frame, said offset value indicating a position within the video content corresponding to the end frame.