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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2006
Applicants:

George Chen, Coppell, TX (US);

Mohamed Kharmes Ben Hadj Miled, Irving, TX (US);

Asad Islam, Richardson, TX (US);

Inventors:

George Chen, Coppell, TX (US);

Mohamed Kharmes Ben Hadj Miled, Irving, TX (US);

Asad Islam, Richardson, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for identifying important video frames and segments in multimedia content such as a segmented compressed domain video. Video frames in a segment are analyzed to determine intensity, contrast, and motion values for the frames and their segments. The values among frames and segments are compared to identify one or more video segments likely to be important to a viewer. The systems and methods may additionally be augmented with audio data other characteristics associated with the video frames and segments analyzed.


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