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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2000
System and method for determining video clip boundaries for interactive custom video creation system
Andreas Girgensohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John S. Boreczky, San Leandro, CA (US);
John J. Doherty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Chiu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lynn D. Wilcox, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A heuristically derived unsuitability score is computed and used as an input for metaphorical springs in which each selected video segment from recorded video of a video camera is associated with a metaphorical spring that maintains the selected segment at an optimal length while being responsive to a global system spring whose spring strength determines a final length of a final edited output video. Accordingly, user-specified changes to the final length of the final output video automatically lengthen or shorten the lengths of individual segments in such a way that high quality video segments having low unsuitability scores are emphasized over low quality video segments having high unsuitability scores.