Patent ID: 9639762
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06K,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A captured video data stream summarization method, comprising: receiving a stream of consecutively exposed video data frames from a camera hardware module (CM); iteratively evaluating a stream summary comprising one or more of the video data frames based on each new set of frames received from the CM, wherein the evaluating further comprises: scoring each non-incumbent frame in a new set of frames received from the CM with respect to the other frames in the new set, and with respect to each incumbent frame included in the stream summary from a prior iteration, wherein scoring each non-incumbent frame further comprises: selecting frames, from a pool including the non-incumbent and the incumbent frames, based on a solution to an objective function that optimizes the frame scoring for the selection; and updating the stream summary stored in a memory in response to selecting a non-incumbent frame in preference over an incumbent frame.