Patent ID: 7657561
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method executed in a processor comprising the steps of: receiving a video program of full-motion video and associated with other information, said video program comprising segments, each of which includes a plurality of frames and an associated portion of said other information; for each segment, selecting a representative frame from the plurality of frames in said segment, thereby forming a condensed electronic data module composed of said representative frame and said associated portion of said other information; converting said condensed electronic data module for each said segment into hypertext representation; forming a pictorial transcript by creating a document from a concatenation of said hypertext representations of said module for each said segment, in a format that allows interaction with a graphical browser from a concatenation of said representations, said pictorial transcript being a compressed representation of said applied video program in that the plurality of frames of each segment is reduced to a representative frame; discarding representative frames for each video program segments that are shorter than a pre-selected time interval; and storing the document, printing the document, or presenting the document for viewing.