Patent ID: 8818038

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining a queue of object-based descriptions of at least three different source objects in a source video, wherein the descriptions comprise for each respective source object its duration and location in each frame; selecting a subset of at least three source objects from said queue based on given criteria, and sampling from each selected source object one or more synopsis objects; determining for each synopsis object a respective display time for starting its display in a synopsis video; and generating the synopsis video by displaying the selected synopsis objects or objects derived therefrom each at its respective determined display time, wherein two or more synopsis objects which are displayed at least partially simultaneously in the synopsis video, are generated from source objects that are captured at different times in the source video, and wherein two or more synopsis objects which are generated from source objects that are captured at least partially simultaneously in the source video having a specific temporal overlap between them, are displayed in the synopsis video with a temporal overlap between them, which is different than the specific temporal overlap or with no temporal overlap between them at all.