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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
May. 27, 1997
Takashi Satou, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukinobu Taniguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Niikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihito Akutsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinobu Tonomura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Hamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video caption detection scheme capable of detecting captions from the coded video data which are coded by using a combination of predictive coding and motion compensation, without requiring the decoding of coded video data into frame images. In this video caption detection scheme, whether each pixel/block in the video data is coded by using inter-frame correlation without using motion compensation or not is judged. Then, a region in the video data at which pixels/blocks that is judged as being coded by using inter-frame correlation without using motion compensation are concentrated time-wise and space-wise, is detected as a caption region. The detection can be realized by counting a frequency of appearance of a pixel/block which is judged as being coded by using inter-frame correlation without using motion compensation, at each pixel/block position of a frame over a prescribed counting period, and then comparing the counted frequency of appearance with a prescribed threshold value.