Patent Document ID: 9508011
Application ID: 13104793
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, content comprising a media clip including audio and video; analyzing, by the computing device, at least a portion of the content, said analyzing including preparing query frames of the content by selecting representative frames in the content and selecting at least one of the audio and video in the content to generate a signature for a search query; generating, by the computing device, the signature, the signature including a set of bits identifying the content, wherein the set of bits are determined from a plurality of regions of a video frame of the representative frames in the content, a bit of the set of bits associated with a region of the plurality of regions, the bit being assigned a first value if a predetermined half of the region is brighter than the other half of the region, and the bit being assigned a second value if the predetermined half of the region is not brighter than the other half of the region; and receiving video search results resulting from a comparison of the generated signature in a search query against a search corpus to identify the media clip in the search corpus.