Use of program-schedule text and teleprompter output to facilitate selection of a portion of a media-program recording
View Patent ↗In one aspect, an example method involves accessing first data representing a program schedule of a media program; making a determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed by a teleprompter, where a portion of the media program was recorded proximate a time when the second text was displayed; using the first text of the program schedule as a basis to select a portion of the program schedule; and responsive to at least the determination, storing data indicative of a correlation between (i) the selected portion of the program schedule and (ii) the recorded portion of the media program. An example non-transitory computer-readable medium and an example computing device, both related to the example method, are also disclosed herein.
1. A method comprising:
accessing first data representing a program schedule of a media program;
making a determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed by a teleprompter, wherein a portion of the media program was recorded proximate a time when the second text was displayed;
using the first text of the program schedule as a basis to select a portion of the program schedule; and
responsive to at least the determination, storing data indicative of a correlation between (i) the selected portion of the program schedule and (ii) the recorded portion of the media program.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determination is a first determination, the method further comprising:
making a second determination that the recorded portion of the media program was recorded proximate the time when the second text was displayed,
wherein responsive to at least the first determination comprises responsive to at least the first and second determinations.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, from the teleprompter, second data representing the second text; and
making the determination based, at least in part, on the received second data.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the teleprompter comprises a display component having an active line region, and wherein making the determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed by the teleprompter comprises making a determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed in the active line region of the display component.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determination is a first determination, the method further comprising:
making a second determination that the teleprompter displayed multiple scrolling characters of text at a scrolling rate that satisfies one or more predetermined criterion; and
making a third determination that at least a portion of the multiple scrolling characters of text match the first text,
wherein responsive to at least the first determination comprises responsive to at least the first, second, and third determinations.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
determining the scrolling rate; and
making the second determination based, at least in part, on the determined scrolling rate.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a criterion that the scrolling rate is less than 21 characters per second.
8. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a criterion that the scrolling rate is greater than 11 characters per second.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the media program comprises multiple news stories, wherein the selected portion of the program schedule corresponds to a particular one of the multiple news stories, and wherein the recorded portion of the media program comprises an initial frame of the news story.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an indication of the selected portion of the program schedule;
using the received indication and the stored data to select the recorded portion of the media program; and
displaying at least a portion of the selected recorded portion of the media program.
11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed cause performance of a set of acts comprising:
accessing first data representing a program schedule of a media program;
making a determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed by a teleprompter, wherein a portion of the media program was recorded proximate a time when the second text was displayed;
using the first text of the program schedule as a basis to select a portion of the program schedule; and
responsive to at least the determination, storing data indicative of a correlation between (i) the selected portion of the program schedule and (ii) the recorded portion of the media program.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the determination is a first determination, the acts further comprising:
making a second determination that the teleprompter displayed multiple scrolling characters of text at a scrolling rate that satisfies one or more predetermined criterion; and
making a third determination that at least a portion of the multiple scrolling characters of text match the first text,
wherein responsive to at least the first determination comprises responsive to at least the first, second, and third determinations.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , the acts further comprising:
determining the scrolling rate; and
making the second determination based, at least in part, on the determined scrolling rate.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a criterion that the scrolling rate is less than 21 characters per second.
15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a criterion that the scrolling rate is greater than 11 characters per second.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , the acts further comprising:
receiving an indication of the selected portion of the program schedule;
using the received indication and the stored data to select the recorded portion of the media program; and
displaying at least a portion of the selected recorded portion of the media program.
17. A computing device comprising:
a processor;
a communication interface; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause performance of a set of acts comprising:
accessing, via the communication interface, first data representing a program schedule of a media program;
making a determination that first text of the program schedule matches second text displayed by a teleprompter, wherein a portion of the media program was recorded proximate a time when the second text was displayed;
using the first text of the program schedule as a basis to select a portion of the program schedule; and
responsive to at least the determination, storing data indicative of a correlation between (i) the selected portion of the program schedule and (ii) the recorded portion of the media program.
18. The computing device of claim 17 , the acts further comprising:
making a second determination that the teleprompter displayed multiple scrolling characters of text at a scrolling rate that satisfies one or more predetermined criterion; and
making a third determination that at least a portion of the multiple scrolling characters of text match the first text,
wherein responsive to at least the first determination comprises responsive to at least the first, second, and third determinations.
19. The computing device of claim 18 , the acts further comprising:
determining the scrolling rate; and
making the second determination based, at least in part, on the determined scrolling rate.
20. The computing device of claim 18 , wherein the one or more predetermined criterion comprises a criterion that the scrolling rate is greater than 11 characters per second.