Pulse or digital communications – Bandwidth reduction or expansion – Television or motion video signal
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-18
2005-10-18
An, Shawn S. (Department: 2613)
Pulse or digital communications
Bandwidth reduction or expansion
Television or motion video signal
C375S240080, C375S240030, C375S240110, C375S240160, C375S240210, C375S240280, C704S501000, C704S504000, C382S236000, C382S238000, C382S251000, C382S243000, C348S699000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06956904
ABSTRACT:
A method for summarizing a video first detects audio peaks in a sub-sampled audio signal of the video. Then, motion activity in the video is extracted and filtered. The filtered motion activity is quantized to a continuous stream of digital pulses, one pulse for each frame. If the motion activity is greater than a predetermined threshold the pulse is one, otherwise the pulse is zero. Each quantized pulse is tested with respect to the timing of rising and falling edges. If the pulse meets the condition of the test, then the pulse is selected as a candidate pulse related to an interesting event in the video, otherwise the pulse is discarded. The candidate pulses are correlated, time-wise to the audio peaks, and patterns between the pulses and peaks are examined. The correlation patterns segment the video into uninteresting and interesting portions, which can then be summarized.
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Cabasson Romain
Divakaran Ajay
Peker Kadir A.
An Shawn S.
Brinkman Dirk
Curtin Andrew J.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc.
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