Patent ID: 7587124
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: G06F,G06K,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for recognizing contents of a video made of picture frames, the apparatus comprising: a splitting unit that splits the picture frames into a plurality of sets of video shots based on cut points, each cut point indicating a change of screen; a similar-video-shot extracting unit that extracts similar video shots that are similar to each of the video shots from among the sets of video shots; a maximum-count-video-shot extracting unit that counts a number of similar video shots for each of the video shots and extracts a maximum count video shot that has a maximum count of the similar video shots; a representative-video-shot determining unit that takes the maximum count video shot as a representative video shot representing contents of the video; an assessing unit that assesses whether the maximum count video shot extracted by the maximum-count-video-shot extracting unit corresponds to the representative video shot determined by the representative-video-shot determining unit based on a count of the similar video shots that are similar to the maximum count video shot and a count of a first set of video shots, wherein a second representative-video-shot determining unit that takes the representative video shot as the maximum count video shot based on an assessment result of the assessing unit.