Patent ID: 8805862

Claim:
A video search method, applied to a video search apparatus to obtain a video search result among a plurality of video files to be searched, the method comprising: selecting a video file having a time length as a query video file, and parsing bit streams of the query video file and the plurality of video files to be searched to obtain a plurality of corresponding motion vectors (MVs) by the video search apparatus; sequentially constructing a plurality of corresponding MV maps in a time domain according to the MVs by the video search apparatus, wherein each of the MV maps consists of a first number of the MVs; obtaining correlations between the MV map of the query video file and the MV map of each of the video files to be searched by comparing the MVs in the MV map of the query video file with the MVs in the MV map of the video file to be searched by the video search apparatus; obtaining the video search result according to the correlations by the video search apparatus; and before the step of obtaining the MVs from the query video file and the video files to be searched, selectively converting the query video file and the video files to be searched into video files having a same format through a conversion operation.