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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1996
Filed:
May. 11, 1994
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for storing and managing motion video image information for retrieving scenes of interest in a short time from a many-hour motion video image stored in a recording medium. As motion video image information for managing and retrieving a motion video image, a whole motion video image R is hierarchically divided into frame sequences A, A1, A11 . . . of shorter time according to the construction and the semantic contents thereof, and logical frame structure data representing the hierarchical relationship of the frame sequences, attribute data At of the frame sequences, and still video images rf of representative frames are generated, which are associated with each other to create a data file. Retrieval of a motion video image is performed by extracting frame sequences using the attribute data and logical frame structure as retrieval keys for the data file of the motion video image information, and confirming the contents using the still video image rf of the representative frames. Any scene can be randomly accessed and associated scenes can also be retrieved easily, and thus a motion video image of interest can quickly be retrieved from a many-hour motion video image.