Patent
1994-11-29
1996-11-12
Powell, Mark R.
395501, 395348, 395601, G06F 1500
Patent
active
055748457
ABSTRACT:
A computer-implemented method for use by a viewer for the management of video data in a stored video stream, the video stream including a plurality of video shots wherein each shot comprises a sequence of frames, the comprises defining and storing in memory on a frame-sequence axis a time-based model of the video stream; defining and storing in memory on the frame-sequence axis at least one of a space-based model of the video stream, an object-based model of the video stream, and an event-based model of the video stream. The method further comprises selectively scanning through such of the models as have been defined; identifying time, space, object, and/or event segments of interest in such of the models as have been defined; and selecting for viewing portions of the video stream associated with the segments of interest.
REFERENCES:
"Data Modeling of Time-Based Media", Gibbs et al., Visual Objects (ed. D. Tsichritzis), University of Geneva, 1993, pp. 91-102.
"Audio/Video Databases: An Object-Oriented Approach", Gibbs et al., Proc. Ninth In'tl Conf. on Data Engineering, 1993, pp. 381-390.
Arman Farshid
Benson Daniel C.
DePommier Remi
Pizano Arturo A.
Ahmed Adel A.
Breene John E.
Powell Mark R.
Siemens Corporate Research Inc.
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