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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11887371 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024

Filed:

May. 26, 2021

Thumbnail video segmentation identifying thumbnail locations for a video

Applicant:

Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seth Walker, Oakland, CA (US);

Hijung Shin, Arlington, MA (US);

Cristin Ailidh Fraser, San Diego, CA (US);

Aseem Agarwala, Seattle, WA (US);

Lubomira Dontcheva, Seattle, WA (US);

Joel Richard Brandt, Venice, CA (US);

Jovan Popović, Seattle, WA (US);

Joy Oakyung Kim, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Justin Salamon, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jui-hsien Wang, Sammamish, WA (US);

Timothy Jeewun Ganter, Woodinville, WA (US);

Xue Bai, Bellevue, WA (US);

Dingzeyu Li, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Daquan Zhao

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/031 (2006.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/49 (2022.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01); G06V 20/46 (2022.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); G11B 27/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to a thumbnail segmentation that defines the locations on a video timeline where thumbnails are displayed. Candidate thumbnail locations are determined from boundaries of feature ranges of the video indicating when instances of detected features are present in the video. In some embodiments, candidate thumbnail separations are penalized for being separated by less than a minimum duration corresponding to a minimum pixel separation (e.g., the width of a thumbnail) between consecutive thumbnail locations on a video timeline. The thumbnail segmentation is computed by solving a shortest path problem through a graph that models different thumbnail locations and separations. As such, a video timeline is displayed with thumbnails at locations on the timeline defined by the thumbnail segmentation, with each thumbnail depicting a portion of the video associated with the thumbnail location.

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