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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2002
Donald J. Stavely, Windsor, CO (US);
Robert P. Cazier, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Amy E. Battles, Windsor, CO (US);
James W. Owens, Fort Collins, CO (US);
James S. Voss, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Dan L. Dalton, Greeley, CO (US);
Donald J. Stavely, Windsor, CO (US);
Robert P. Cazier, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Amy E. Battles, Windsor, CO (US);
James W. Owens, Fort Collins, CO (US);
James S. Voss, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Dan L. Dalton, Greeley, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A video thumbnail for use as an icon of a digital video file and method of generating same. The video thumbnail is preferably a relatively short, low resolution, animated video thumbnail. The video thumbnail is extracted from a preferred sequence of the video file and embedded as a header of the file. The video thumbnail preferably plays automatically, and acts as a pointer to the file and the preferred point within it.