Video Content Matching Using Digital Profiles and Frame-Pixel Alignment

The patent replaces manual mechanical editing processes with an automated computer-based system that uses digital profiles and acoustic fingerprints to detect ad placements. The system automatically compares audio tracks, identifies matching segments, and flags potential ad placements, eliminating the need for human editors to manually review each segment while maintaining high accuracy through automated pattern recognition and comparison algorithms.

The patent creates digital copies of audio tracks and video segments as detectable profiles. By generating acoustic fingerprints and digital signatures of ad placements, the system can rapidly search through large volumes of content without manually reviewing each original segment. These digital copies enable fast comparison and identification while reducing the time required to police ad placement across extensive broadcast libraries.

The patent segments the audio and video content into smaller detectable units called digital profiles and acoustic fingerprints. Each ad placement is converted into a unique digital signature that can be rapidly searched for within larger content libraries. This segmentation enables fast automated searching while maintaining precision by creating detailed, high-resolution fingerprints that capture distinctive acoustic characteristics of each ad segment.

The patent transforms audio and video parameters into digital profile representations, changing the form of the data from raw media to processed digital signatures. By converting audio tracks into acoustic fingerprints and video segments into detectable profiles, the system achieves both rapid search capability and high matching precision through sophisticated parameter transformation and comparison algorithms that accurately identify even subtle variations in content.