Patent ID: 9398326
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of identifying a representative image of a video stream, further comprising: selecting a plurality of secondary video streams for comparison to a primary video stream; identifying, from the plurality of secondary video streams selected for comparison to the primary video stream, a plurality of video assets aired over a plurality of days and each having common program metadata; identifying a plurality of video frames of each video asset having high similarity to one another; computing a similarity metric for at least one secondary video stream of the plurality of secondary video streams, by evaluating similarity of content between the primary video stream and the at least one secondary video stream, excluding the identified video frames from the evaluating; selecting a plurality of video frames from at least one secondary video stream of the plurality of secondary video streams based at least on the similarity metric of the plurality of video frames relative to the primary video stream; identifying at least one video frame from the primary video stream, based at least on the similarity metric, having greatest similarity relative to the selected plurality of video frames; and selecting the at least one video frame identified in said identifying step as an image representative of the primary video stream for use as thumbnail for the primary video stream.