Patent ID: 7703044
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of generating static representations of time-based multimedia information, the method comprising: receiving, at a data processing system, time-based multimedia information electronically stored in one or more multimedia files, the time-based multimedia information characterized by a start time and an end time; receiving, at the data processing system, event criteria specifying one or more types of multimedia events that occur in multimedia information; receiving, at the data processing system, textual information; analyzing, by a processor of the data processor system, the time-based multimedia information in response to the textual information to identify using one or more content recognition techniques audio information or video information in the time-based multimedia information that includes the textual information; determining, by the processor of the data processing system, a set of multimedia events occurring in the identified audio information or video information that satisfy the event criteria, each multimedia event in the set of multimedia events being of the specified one or more types of multimedia events and occurring as a multimedia event in the time-based multimedia information between a first time and a second time; determining, by the processor of the data processing system, for each multimedia event in the set of multimedia events occurring in the time-based multimedia information between the first time and the second time, a time between the first time and the second time when the multimedia event occurs in the time-based multimedia information; generating, by the processor of the data processing system, a static representation for the time-based multimedia information, wherein the static representation comprises: