Patent ID: 8094997

Claim:
A method for multimedia processing, comprising the steps of: acquiring a multimedia signal containing at least one of audio data and video data, determining whether scene processing information is absent from the multimedia signal, responsive to determining that the scene processing information is absent from the multimedia signal: analyzing at least one of the audio data and the video data, wherein the analysis comprises assigning at least one importance value to at least one of the scenes of the multimedia signal, the at least one importance value corresponding to the importance of the at least one scene, embedding within the multimedia signal the scene processing information, wherein the scene processing information corresponds to the importance of scenes comprising the at least one importance value of the multimedia signal, wherein the scene processing information further comprises at least one chapter mark corresponding to a scene with an importance value exceeding a predefined threshold, the at least one chapter mark enabling a user-prompted jump to another chapter associated with another scene assigned an importance value exceeding the predefined threshold, and extracting the scene processing information from the multimedia signal, and generating playback of the multimedia signal based on the scene processing information, wherein the step of generating playback of the multimedia signal further includes: generating a summarized playback of the multimedia signal, wherein the summarized playback comprises a selection of n scenes of the multimedia signal having the highest importance values and the number n is chosen such that the summarized playback has a running time substantially equal to a user defined running time.