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Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2002
Applicants:

Sylvie Jeannin, New York, NY (US);

John Zimmerman, Ossining, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sylvie Jeannin, New York, NY (US);

John Zimmerman, Ossining, NY (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for providing the creation of a visual summary of a video source during fast forward/rewind of the video can be created by using extracting frames either automatically or manually to create an initial visual summary. A series of weights may be assigned to the extracted frames, which are then filtered according to the relative weights to create a modified visual summary. The keyframe display rate is then adjusted according tot he fast forward/rewind speed, which can be either a standard speed or user selected speed, so as to display the keyframes while the video source is being fast forwarded/rewound. The keyframes may be substituted by selected images and audio, so that an advertiser can substitute an image of the product and a brief audio summary while the user is fast forwarding/rewinding past the commercial message.


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