Selective commercial detector and eliminator apparatus and metho

Details Selective commercial detector and eliminator apparatus and metho Selective commercial detector and eliminator apparatus and metho

1997-12-12

1999-10-26

Faile, Andrew I.

Television

Special applications

Manufacturing

348 10, 348907, 345328, H04N 710

Patent

active

059737239

ABSTRACT:
A device contains a plurality of prestored program clips corresponding to portions of program information for presentation to a user. A comparator compares the program clips with with program information and causes selection of an alternate program in response to a match. In one embodiment, the program information corresponds to a television program and a program clip corresponds to a video frame at the beginning of an undesirable commercial, resulting in a television that automatically selects an alternate program in response an original program having an undesirable commercial. After a predetermined time associated with the video clip the television automatically returns to the original program. The invention also enables creation of new program clips based upon received program information.

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