Patent ID: 8243790

Claim:
A method for generating scene classifications in a video system, the method comprising: receiving at a data processing device, video information that characterizes a sequence of frames; identifying, with the data processing device, scene changes within the sequence of frames based on a correlation between one or more characteristics of a current frame with one or more characteristics of one or more reference frames, wherein a scene comprises a sequence of frames that share at least one characteristic property, wherein a scene change comprises transition from a first characteristic property to a second characteristic property; classifying a scene at least based on one or more of the characteristics in the sequence of frames; adjusting one or more coding parameters based on the classification of the scene; coding the video information in accordance with the adjusted coding parameters; and determining a lack of correlation based on a magnitude of a prediction error between the current frame and a motion-compensated prediction of the current frame, wherein scene classifications comprises an identifier of different classes of scenes in a collection of video information.