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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2007
Xian-sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Tao Mei, Beijing, CN;
Linjun Yang, Beijing, CN;
Shipeng LI, Beijing, CN;
Xian-Sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Tao Mei, Beijing, CN;
Linjun Yang, Beijing, CN;
Shipeng Li, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining insertion points in a first video stream are described. The insertions points being configured for inserting at least one second video into the first video. In accordance with one embodiment, a method for determining the insertion points includes parsing the first video into a plurality of shots. The plurality of shots includes one or more shot boundaries. The method then determines one or more insertion points by balancing a discontinuity metric and an attractiveness metric of each shot boundary.