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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998

Filed:

Apr. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Ramin Zabih, Ithaca, NY (US);

Justin F Miller, Mystic, CT (US);

Kevin W Mai, Syosset, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348700 ; 348699 ;
Abstract

Apparatus and process for detecting scene breaks in a sequence of video frames providing a moving picture. Entering and exiting edge pixels in each of a plurality of successive video frames are counted, and an edge change fraction for each of the successive video frames is derived therefrom. Peaks which are detected in the edge change fractions are indicative of scene breaks.


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