Patent ID: 7669127
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G11B,H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a presentation recorder appliance of recording information during a multimedia presentation, the method comprising: receiving video information at the presentation recorder appliance, the video information captured from a first source in one or more information sources; receiving audio information at the presentation recorder appliance, the audio information captured from one of the one or more information sources; automatically analyzing, at the presentation recorder device, the video information to select a set of one or more video frames from the video information; automatically analyzing, at the presentation recorder device, one or more of the set of one or more video frames to extract, based on one or more text recognition techniques, text information from the set of one or more video frames; automatically analyzing, at the presentation recorder device, the audio information to extract text information from the audio information; storing the set of one or more video frames and the audio information in a storage device associated with the presentation recorder appliance to create stored information; automatically indexing at the presentation recorder appliance the stored information using the text information extracted from the set of one or more video frames to generate an index between the textual information extracted from the set of video frames and the stored information; automatically indexing at the presentation recorder device the stored information using the text information extracted from the audio information to generate an index between the text information extracted from the audio information and the stored information; and providing at the presentation recorder appliance access to the stored information based on the index between the textual information extracted from the set of video frames and the stored information and the index between the text information extracted from the audio information and the stored information.