Patent ID: 9576610
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of detecting significant faces in video streams comprising: detecting at least one face in a video stream; tracking the at least one face to determine at least one video clip associated with one of a plurality of individuals; assigning the at least one video clip to a group of video clips based on the associated one individual; detecting at least one significant face in the group of video clips when the detected face meets one or more significance criteria, wherein the significance criteria is associated with a face-frame characteristic; displaying a representation of the at least one significant face in association with a representation for each video clip in the group of video clips, wherein the representation for each video clip comprises a video frame in which the at least one significant face appears, wherein the at least one significant face is determined based on at least one of: a size of the face relative to frame size, and presence of the face within a predefined area of the frame; and adjusting an order of the one or more significance criteria through a user interface.