Patent ID: 7383504

Claim:
A computer implemented method for ordering multimedia content, comprising the steps of: segmenting the multimedia content to extract video objects, in which the objects are video object planes; extracting and associating features of the video object to produce content entities, wherein the content entities are recursive data structures comprising features, relations, directed acyclic graphs and containment sets; coding the content entities to produce directed acyclic graphs of the content entities, each directed acyclic graph representing a particular interpretation of the multimedia content; measuring high- level temporal attributes of each content entity; assigning the measured high- level temporal attributes to each corresponding content entity in the directed acyclic graphs to order the content entities of the multimedia content; comparing the ordered content entities in a plurality of the directed acyclic graphs to determined similar interpretations of the multimedia content; traversing the multimedia content according to the directed acyclic graph and the measured attributes assigned to the content; and summarizing the multimedia content according to the directed acyclic graph and the measured attributes assigned to the content entities.