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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1999
Alison Joan Lennon, Balmain, AU;
Delphine Anh Dao Le, Drummoyne, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Digital image signal interpretation is the process of understanding the content of an image through the identification of significant objects or regions in the image and analysing their spatial arrangement. Traditionally the task of image interpretation required human analysis. This is expensive and time consuming, consequently considerable research has been directed towards constructing automated image interpretation systems. A method of interpreting a digital video signal is disclosed whereby the digital video signal has contextual data. The method comprising the steps of firstly, segmenting the digital video signal into one or more video segments, each segment having a corresponding portion of the contextual data. Secondly, analysing each video segment to provide a graph at one or more temporal instances in the respective video segment dependent upon the corresponding portion of the contextual data.