公开(公告)号：US11335118B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US16609642

申请日：2018-05-01

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Takuhiro Kaneko ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu ,  Kunio Kashino

IPC: G06V40/16 ,  G06N3/08

Abstract: A signal output unit outputs an acquired signal. A signal accumulation unit accumulates signals. A signal attribute value display unit displays a value of an attribute related to an element constituting a target represented by the acquired signal or a signal generation source in a state in which an instruction for changing the value of the attribute is able to be received. A changed attribute value acquisition unit acquires a changed value of the attribute when the instruction for changing the value of the attribute is received. A signal retrieval unit retrieves, from the signals accumulated in the signal accumulation unit, a signal similar to a changed signal when the value of the attribute has been changed on the basis of the changed value of the attribute acquired by the changed attribute value acquisition unit.

公开(公告)号：US11645845B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US16972267

申请日：2019-06-03

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Yasunori Oishi ,  Takahito Kawanishi ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu ,  Kunio Kashino

IPC: H04N21/439 ,  G06V20/40 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06Q30/0272

CPC classification number: G06V20/46 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  G06F3/165 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06Q30/0272

Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a CM segment detection unit 120 that extracts a cut point, which is a time point where a frame in which the volume of an audio signal of a broadcast program is less than a volume threshold value and the amount of change from a previous frame is at least a pixel change threshold value is played, and detects a CM segment by comparing an interval of the extracted cut point with a CM defined length; a sponsorship credit display segment estimation unit 130 that estimates, as a sponsorship credit display segment, a predetermined time period before or after at least one continuous CM segment detected by the CM segment detection unit 120; and an output unit 140 that outputs information indicating the sponsorship credit display segment.

公开(公告)号：US11520837B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US17263110

申请日：2019-07-26

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Masataka Yamaguchi ,  Go Irie ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu ,  Kunio Kashino

IPC: G06F16/906

Abstract: Clustering can be performed using a self-expression matrix in which noise is suppressed. A self-expression matrix is calculated that minimizes an objective function that is for obtaining, from among matrices included in a predetermined matrix set, a self-expression matrix whose elements are linear weights when data points in a data set are expressed by linear combinations of points, the objective function being represented by a term for obtaining the residual between data points in the data set and data points expressed by linear combinations of points using the self-expression matrix, a first regularization term that is multiplied by a predetermined weight and is for reducing linear weights of the data points that have a large Euclidean norm in the self-expression matrix, and a second regularization term for the self-expression matrix. A similarity matrix defined by the calculated self-expression matrix is then calculated. Then a clustering result is obtained by clustering the data set based on the similarity matrix.

公开(公告)号：US11412304B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US15734834

申请日：2019-06-03

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Yasunori Oishi ,  Takahito Kawanishi ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu ,  Kunio Kashino

IPC: H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N5/14 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  H04N21/462

Abstract: Information related to CMs included in a broadcast program can be automatically added. A CM information generation device 100 includes: a CM section detection unit 120 that detects one or more CM sections within a broadcast program by comparing the volume of the broadcast program with a volume threshold; a CM detection list generation unit 150 that generates a CM detection list describing company names of companies that have advertised detected CMs, which are CMs in the CM sections detected by the CM section detection unit 120, by cross-referencing the detected CMs with CM masters that have been associated with company names of advertisers in advance; a company name list generation unit 170 that generates a company name list describing company names that are specified by a sponsorship credit display indicating sponsors of the broadcast program; and a CM information generation unit 180 that generates CM information related to the detected CMs by comparing the CM detection list with the company name list.

公开(公告)号：US11288851B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-29

申请号：US16609898

申请日：2018-05-01

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Takuhiro Kaneko ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu ,  Kunio Kashino

IPC: G06T11/60 ,  G06F3/0485 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06T11/40 ,  G06F3/04855

Abstract: A signal output unit outputs an acquired signal. A signal attribute value display unit displays a value of an attribute related to an element constituting a target represented by the acquired signal or a signal generation source in a state in which a change instruction of the value of the attribute is able to be received. A changed attribute value acquisition unit acquires a changed value of the attribute when the change instruction of the value of the attribute is received. A change unit changes the value of the attribute for which the change instruction has been received on the basis of the changed value of the attribute acquired by the changed attribute value acquisition unit. A changed signal output unit outputs a changed signal in which the value of the attribute has been changed.

公开(公告)号：US11212572B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16967384

申请日：2019-02-05

Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

Inventor： Takahito Kawanishi ,  Hidehisa Nagano ,  Kunio Kashino ,  Yasunori Oishi ,  Kaoru Hiramatsu

IPC: H04N21/2668 ,  G06K9/62 ,  H04N21/2343

Abstract: An identifier of query content is accurately determined. A content determining device 100 includes an input unit 2 that inputs query content, a storage unit 1 that stores a plurality of pieces of master content, and a content determining unit 4 that determines a region where feature values of two pieces of master content out of the plurality of pieces of master content do not match each other, calculates a matching feature count which is a count of feature values of the region that match feature values in a corresponding region of the query content, for each of the two pieces of master content, and determines an identifier of the query content on the basis of the matching feature count of each of the pieces of master content.