CONTENT INTERRUPTION POINT IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY

摘要

Automated content interruption point identification improves the accuracy with which potential content interruption points are identified, and increases the efficiency of content interruption point identification and content distribution. Potential interruption points are automatically identified based on transitions occurring within the content, including changes in the sound level, changes in the light, or brightness, level, changes in people visible in a scene of the content, transitions that are identified by content metadata, and other types of transitions. In providing content to a content consumer, a determination is made whether to interrupt the provision of the content, at one or more of the identified potential content interruption points, based on factors including interruption point metadata, metadata associated with auxiliary content that would be inserted, and user information, which includes explicitly specified user settings, as well as detected user information.

主权项

1. A content interruption point identification device providing improved accuracy and efficiency in identifying interruption points in content, the content interruption point identification device comprising:
one or more processing units that execute computer-executable instructions; and a content interruption point identification engine comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units, cause the content interruption point identification device to perform steps comprising:
identifying scene changes in the content based on at least one of: a detected change in brightness of the content, a detected change in audio volume of the content, or a detected change in a quantity of people visible in the content;selecting at least some of the identified scene changes to be identified as potential content interruption points at which presentation of the content to a user is temporarily interruptible to accommodate presentation of auxiliary content to the user; andannotating the content to comprise the selected ones of the identified potential content interruption points.