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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
May. 12, 2005
Xiaofan Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
C. Brian Atkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gary L. Vondran, Jr., San Carlos, CA (US);
Mei Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles A. Untulis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen Philip Cheatle, Bristol, GB;
Dominic Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaofan Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tong Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);
C. Brian Atkins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gary L. Vondran, Jr., San Carlos, CA (US);
Mei Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles A. Untulis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen Philip Cheatle, Bristol, GB;
Dominic Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system for automatically producing a page using frames of a video stream. A plurality of video frames from a video stream or clip are read, and multiple frames are extracted from the video stream, based on the content of each frame. Frames which neighbor the extracted frames in the video stream are also extracted, with the number of neighboring frames to be extracted being controlled by parameters provided to the page production system. The resolution of the images in the extracted video frames is enhanced, based on the information in each extracted frame and each respective extracted neighboring frame. The enhanced images are automatically cropped to enhance the important features in each image, and the cropped images are composed into one or more pages that are representative of the content of the video stream.