Patent ID: 6119123
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of forming a user index of scenes in a video image which is recorded or being recorded in a computer-readable medium, said method comprising the steps of:retrieving from the recorded video image a selected number of keyframes therein, each keyframe being a frame representative of a respective scene in said image;ordering the keyframes in accordance with user preference information into a hierarchy of a selected number of levels of detail in the scenes represented thereby, each level including a predetermined number of keyframes, each subsequent level including keyframes of greater detail than those in a preceding level; andstoring the ordered keyframes in said computer-readable medium to thereby form said user index of scenes in said image ordered in accordance with the user preference information, thus reducing the time for accessing the ordered hierarchy for scenes according to the user's preferences.