Patent ID: 8392183

Claim:
A method for summarizing an audiovisual presentation, comprising: a) providing an audiovisual presentation having a first temporal length, the audiovisual presentation comprising: i) a plurality of dialogue segments, each dialogue segment comprising a segment component; ii) a plurality of secondary segments selected from the group comprising a non-dialogue segment, a non-dialogue segment with music segment, a shot segment, and an audience reaction segment; b) automatically determining a dialogue segment significance value for each dialogue segment, the method comprising: determining at least one word significance value for at least one segment component characteristic including determining whether the segment component is a noun, pronoun, reference to a story character, a frequency of occurrence of the segment component, a match of the segment component to a predetermined database word; and combining the at least one word significance value to determine the dialogue segment significance value; c) optionally determining the secondary significance value of one or more of the secondary segments wherein the secondary significance value weights the dialogue segment significance value of the dialogue segment; d) receiving a user generated time significance value threshold; e) using the significance value threshold to select the dialogue segment if the dialogue segment significance value exceeds the significance value threshold, and delete the dialogue segment if the dialogue segment significance value is below the significance value threshold; f) combining each dialogue segment with the dialogue segment significance value exceeding the significance value threshold into a summarized version of the audiovisual presentation; and g) providing the summarized version of the audiovisual presentation, the audiovisual presentation having a second temporal length.