Methods, Apparatus and Programs for Generating and Utilizing Content Signatures

摘要

The present invention generally relates to deriving and/or utilizing content signatures. A content signature includes a representation of a content item, which is derived from the content item itself. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method includes: obtaining a content item; transforming the content item to obtain transform domain coefficients; applying Viterbi decoding to at least a set of the transform domain coefficients; using at least one result of the Viterbi decoding as a content signature for the content item. Other embodiments are provided and claimed as well.