US Patent Issued to NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA on Oct. 28 for "Identifying video segments using audio spectrograms" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,495, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to NBCUNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC (Universal City, Calif.).

"Identifying video segments using audio spectrograms" was invented by Jason Rayles (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to at least one embodiment, a method of processing video includes: receiving content including a plurality of segments; and determining a terminus time of a segment of the plurality of segments based on an audio spectrogram associated with the content. The audio spectrogram includes pixels with brightness values over a plurality of frequencies along a first axis and over a plurality of timepoints along a se...