Patent ID: 9031974
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of identifying video content and displaying representative frames of said video content, comprising the steps of: extracting frames from the video content, the extracting identifying for the video content, sequences of frames of each video comprising scenes and determining representative frames for the scenes; identifying one or more visual objects appearing in each of the scenes that correspond to a target object specified by search criteria; determining, for the video content, a visual relevance rank of each of the scenes, wherein the step of determining the visual relevance rank of each of the scenes comprises scoring each of the representative frames by assigning an importance level to each of the representative frames and based on a group size of groups of tubes, determining, for each of the video content, whether to display the representative frame within each of selected scenes based on the visual relevance rank associated with each of the scenes; and displaying at least the representative frame based on the visual relevance rank for each of the video content.