Patent ID: 7609761

Claim:
A system for retrieving motion picture, comprising: a motion picture segmentation means for segmenting motion picture temporally; a motion picture shape descriptor abstracting means for abstracting a motion picture shape descriptor from the segmented motion picture; and a motion picture metadata storing means for storing the motion picture shape descriptor as metadata, wherein the motion picture shape descriptor is abstracted by using one or combination of a mean shape descriptor, a variance shape descriptor, a standard deviation shape descriptor and a differential shape descriptor, wherein the mean shape descriptor is obtained based on an Equation as: sd av ( m )=(Σ i=l to n sd i ( m ))/ n, wherein sd i ={sd i (1), sd i (2), sd i (3), . . . , sd i (m)}, wherein the variance shape descriptor is obtained based on an Equation as: sd var ( m )=(Σ i=l to n ( sd i ( m )− sd av (m)) 2 )/ n/ ( n− 1), where sd av (m)=(Σ i=l to n sd i (m))/n, and sd i ={sd i (1), sd i (2), sd i (3), . . . , sd i (m)}.