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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:
Sep. 04, 2007

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2001
Applicants:

Robert F. Tow, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Ali Rahimi, Cambridge, MA (US);

Steven E. Saunders, Cupertino, CA (US);

Don B. Charnley, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);

Gordon Kotik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert F. Tow, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Ali Rahimi, Cambridge, MA (US);

Steven E. Saunders, Cupertino, CA (US);

Don B. Charnley, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);

Gordon Kotik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Vulcan Patents LLC, Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An MPEG compressed bit stream representing video information is associated with supplemental information such as motion, audio, scene cut, and editorial information. The motion information is identified and processed to determine characteristics of the video information. Motion information is processed to determine magnitude, coherence, and correlation with known motion information templates. MPEG motion vectors are used to determine motion information. Audio, scene cut, and editorial information is similarly identified and processed. The motion information along with other types of information is provided to a client by using color bars or other techniques to allow a client to interact with the video information using supplemental information.


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