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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2009
Timothy S Stevens, Woodbridge, GB;
Joshan Meenowa, Ipswich, GB;
Dale Robertson, Ipswich, GB;
Ian C Kegel, Woodbridge, GB;
Ivan Roper, Felixstowe, GB;
Timothy S Stevens, Woodbridge, GB;
Joshan Meenowa, Ipswich, GB;
Dale Robertson, Ipswich, GB;
Ian C Kegel, Woodbridge, GB;
Ivan Roper, Felixstowe, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for encoding media content. In the field of video compression, temporal compression generates I-frames and dependent P-frames and B-frames. The placement of I-frames is determined by the presence of scene switches in the video. In order to improve the ability of a user to seek to interesting parts of the video, a video encoder considers semantic data identifying narrative points of interest within the video. The encoding process generates encoded video data having I-frames present at scene transitions and also at narratively interesting parts of the video.