Rovi Guides, Inc.

Sonic Ip, Inc.

Martin Schink

Daniel Thomas Ward

Paul Jensen

Leander Carell

Systems and methods for generating a representation of a video media asset for inclusion in a media asset listing for the video media asset is considered. User emotional responses that occur while the video media asset is presented to the user are monitored using a processor. A user emotional response selection criterion is retrieved from a storage device, and based on the retrieved user emotional response selection criterion, one of the monitored user emotional responses is selected. An identification is made of the portion of the video media asset presented to the user when the selected one of the user emotional response occurred, and a representation of the identified portion is generated for the video media asset for inclusion in a media asset listing for the video media asset.

Systems and methods for generating media asset representations based on user emotional responses

Systems and methods for region of interest background smoothing & compression enhancement in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, preprocessing video with a smoothing filter includes identifying a region of interest in a frame of video, determining an importance value for the region of interest, when the importance value satisfies a criterion, applying an intra frame smoothing filter to pixels within the region of interest, which includes dividing the specified region of interest into pairs of pixel groupings, where the pixel groupings in each pair are the same size and are adjacent to each other, calculating the difference between the average luminance of the pixels within each pixel grouping, when the calculated difference is less than a predetermined amount: calculating the average luminance for all pixels in the pixel groupings, and assigning the calculated average luminance to all pixels within the pixel groupings.

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Aachen, Germany

Martin Schink