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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2008
Applicants:
Zhan Cui, Colchester, GB;
Nader Azarmi, Colchester, GB;
Gery M Ducatel, Ipswich, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Video material is dividing into temporal segments. Each segment is examined to determine whether the soundtrack of the segment contains speech sufficient for analysis and if so, metadata are generated based on analysis of the speech. If not, the segment is analysed by comparing frames thereof with those of stored segments that already have metadata assigned to them. One then assigns to the segment under consideration stored metadata associated with one or more stored segments that are similar.