Video summary description scheme and method and system of video summary description data generation for efficient overview and browsing

Abstract

A video summary description scheme for describing video summary intervals by meta data that provides overview functionality, and which makes it feasible to understand overall contents of the original video within a short time, and navigation and browsing functionalities, which make it feasible to search the desired video contents efficiently. A Video Summary DS includes at least one HighlightSegment DS that describes information on a highlight segment corresponding to one of the video summary intervals, wherein the HighlightSegment DS comprises a VideoSegmentLocator DS describing the highlight segment and an ImageLocator DS describing a representative frame of the highlight segment.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a video summary description scheme for efficient video overview and browsing, and also relates to a method and system of video summary description generation to describe video summary according to the video summary description scheme. [0003] The technical fields in which the present invention is involved are content-based video indexing and browsing / searching and summarizing video to the content and then describing it. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] The format of summarizing video largely falls into dynamic summary and static summary. The video description scheme according to the embodiments of the present invention is for efficiently describing the dynamic summary and the static summary in the unification-based description scheme. [0006] Generally, because the existing video summary and description scheme provide simply the information of video interval which is inc...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a video summary description scheme that allows users to easily browse and customize video summaries. The scheme includes a HighlightSegment DS that describes information on a highlight segment corresponding to one or more video summary intervals. The video summary description data generated using this scheme includes a video summary that includes a video segment locator and an image locator describing the highlight segment. The video summary description scheme also includes a video player and an original video representative frame player for playing the original video or the video summary interval. The video summary description scheme allows users to select the summary level and the event they want to browse. The technical effect of the invention is to provide an efficient and user-friendly way to browse and customize video summaries.

Problems solved by technology

Generally, because the existing video summary and description scheme provide simply the information of video interval which is included in the video summary, the existing video summary and description scheme are limited to conveying overall video contents through the playing of the video summary.

Accordingly, if the criteria of users and the video provider are different from each other or users have special criteria, the users cannot obtain the video summary they desire.

That is, although the existing video summary permits the users selecting the video summary with a desired level by providing several levels' video summary, it makes the selecting extent of the users limited so that the users cannot select by the contents of the video summary.

The patent has a limitation on conveying the information using the summary scheme.

Because the scheme describes the interval information of each video segment of dynamic video summary, in spite of providing basic functionalities describing dynamic summary, the scheme has problems in the following aspects.

First, there is the drawback that it cannot provide access to the original video from summary segments constituting the video summary.

That is, when users want to access the original video to understand more detailed information on the basis of the summary contents and overview through video summary, the existing scheme cannot meet the need.

Secondly, the existing scheme cannot provide sufficient audio summary description functionalities.

And finally, there is the drawback that in the case of representing event-based summary, the duplicate description and the complexity of searching is indispensable.

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