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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2005
Applicants:
Kathleen Ryall, Cambridge, MA (US);
Qing LI, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Alan W. Esenther, Ashland, MA (US);
Inventors:
Kathleen Ryall, Cambridge, MA (US);
Qing Li, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Alan W. Esenther, Ashland, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method summarizes a video acquired of a scene spatially and temporally by specifying a spatial query and a temporal query. Frames of the video are selected according to the spatial query and the temporal query, and then the selected frames are composited into an image that represents spatial and temporal characteristics of the scene.