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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;
Morgan William Amos David, Farnham, GB;
Inventors:
Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Winchester, GB;
Morgan William Amos David, Farnham, GB;
Assignee:
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A media handling system in which candidate video sequences are displayed on a display screen in schematic form for selection by a user comprises means for detecting human faces in the candidate video sequences; a display screen for displaying representations of the candidate video sequences for selection by a user, each representation including one or more images representing human faces derived from the respective video sequences; and a user control for defining a set of one or more of the video sequences.