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Method for Automatically Providing a Compressed Rendition of a Video Program in a Format Suitable for Electronic Searching and Retrieval

a video program and compressed technology, applied in the field of automatic providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable, can solve the problems of preventing the rapid access of such programs on the world wide web by graphical browsers, wasting a long time, and wasting a lot of time and effort, so as to achieve the effect of reducing the substantial time and effor

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-04-15
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO
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Enables rapid and efficient interaction with video programs on the Web by providing a compressed rendition that retains a substantial portion of the original information content, reducing transmission time and manual effort.

Problems solved by technology

While graphical browsers provide an adequate interface for text and images, they provide an inadequate interface for video programs.
The sequential nature of the video and audio components of a video program impedes rapid access to such programs on the World Wide Web by graphical browsers.
Furthermore, because of the limited bandwidth of networks supporting the World Wide Web, and particularly the limitations of most users' connections to such networks, it takes a long time to transmit a program with its full content.
However, the generation of this document is typically a tedious and time consuming task since it must be created by a manual process.

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[0012]A method for automatically compressing multimedia data is disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 252,861, filed Jun. 2, 1994, pending and Shahraray B., and Gibbon D. C., “Automatic Generation of Pictorial Transcripts of Video Programs,” in Multimedia Computing and Networking 1995, Proc. SPIE 2417, February 1995, the latter reference being hereby incorporated by reference. In accordance with this known method, a video program is compressed by selecting certain frames from the entire sequence of frames to serve as representative frames. For example, a single frame may be used to represent the visual information contained in any given scene of the video program. A scene may be defined as a segment of the video program over which the visual contents do not change significantly. Thus, a frame selected from the scene may be used to represent the entire scene without losing a substantially large amount of information. A series of such representative frames from all the scen...

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Abstract

A compressed rendition of a video program is provided in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval. An electronic pictorial transcript representation of the video program is initially received. The video program has a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith. The pictorial transcript representation includes a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of the second media component associated with the segment. The electronic pictorial transcript is transformed into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript. The hypertext pictorial transcript is subsequently recorded in an electronic medium.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This Application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 429,610 filed May 5, 2003. This Application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09 / 625,039 filed Jul. 24, 2000 which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08 / 679,976 filed Jul. 15, 1996.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]This invention relates generally to a method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval, and more particularly to a method for providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval on the World Wide Web.BACKGROUND[0003]The rapid growth of the World Wide Web began with the development of an on-line browser having a graphical user interface. Graphical interfaces provide a number of important advantages, including the ability to rapidly scroll through a document to get to a particular point of interest. Moreove...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04N7/01G06F17/00G06K15/02H04N5/92G06F17/30G06F40/00
CPCY10S707/99945Y10S707/99948G06F17/30796G06F17/30855Y10S707/914G06F17/30843Y10S707/99944G06F16/7844G06F16/739G06F16/748
Inventor GIBBON, DAVID CRAWFORDSHAHRARAY, BEHZAD
Owner AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO
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