Patent ID: 8649573

Claim:
A computer implemented method of summarizing video data, comprising: accessing face information that is associated with at least one identified person within frames of the video data; examining user specifications for selecting portions of the video data, wherein the user specifications identify a selection of one or more persons of interest, and wherein the user specification comprises a user input that directly selects one or more persons of interest; comparing the user specifications with the face information to determine indicia of interest related to each of the frames, wherein determining indicia of interest for a frame comprises: calculating a base interest value for each person identified in a frame based on the identified selection of one or more persons of interest; applying one or more multipliers to the calculated base interest value, wherein the multipliers are based on a relative size of an area of a face to a total area of a particular frame, a distance from the face to a center of the particular frame, and temporal data, wherein the multiplier is higher for a face that appears in the middle of a video sequence than for a face that appears at a beginning or an end; identifying at least one of the frames that are in accordance with user specifications based on the indicia of interest; and forming summary video data using the at least one identified frame of the video data having a highest calculated indicia of interest.