Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements in television transmissions

摘要

Methods and apparatus to detect commercial advertisements associated with media presentations are disclosed. An example method involves receiving a video frame and detecting a change in box-formatting between the video frame and a subsequent video frame. A transition between the video frame and the subsequent video frame is indicated as a commercial advertisement transition based on the detected change in box-formatting. 7327769_1 P013239D1 20004/451AU02