SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT FROM RECORDED TV PROGRAMS

摘要

A system and method for removing commercials from recorded television programs. The system and method for removing commercials from recorded television programs is defined by a set top box containing instructions embodied in software stored on non-volatile memory which cause a processor in the set top box to identify breaks in television programming while recording, detect the presence of a commercial, flag detected commercials, and delete flagged commercials once recording ends. Conventional program metadata, such as closed captioning and program information metadata, is used by the set top box to detect, verify and flag commercials. The set top box can then playback the recorded television programs with the commercials having been deleted.

主权项

1. A method for removing commercials from recorded television programs, comprising the steps of:
providing an information appliance configured receive content signals relating to multimedia programming and transmit content signals relating to multimedia programming to an output apparatus; recording by said information appliance multimedia programming in content signals received; identifying by said information appliance commercial advertising content interspersed in the multimedia programming being recorded in real time; flagging by said information appliance commercial advertising content detected in real time; and deleting by said information appliance flagged commercial advertising content following the termination of the recording of multimedia programming.