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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2007
You-sun Bang, Yongin-si, KR;
Yun-tae Kim, Yongin-si, KR;
Heui-keun Choh, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for selectively outputting image frames are provided. The apparatus includes a main topic frame extractor which extracts a main topic frame, which expresses a main topic selected by a user, from continuous image frames; a composite image frame creator which extracts a key object to realize the main topic from the main topic frames, and estimates a background object with respect to the key object to create a composite image frame using the key object and the background object; a wide-angle image frame creator which creates a wide-angle image frame, which includes the composite image frame and an image frame having common information to the composite image frame, among the continuous image frames; an attractive region setting unit which sets an attractive region with respect to the wide-angle image frame; and an output unit which outputs the attractive region.