Patent ID: 6880171

Claim:
A system for acquiring and reviewing a body of information, wherein the body of information includes a plurality of segments, each segment representing a defined set of information in the body of information, the system comprising: means for acquiring data representing the body of information; means for storing the acquired data; first display means for generating a display of a first segment of the body of information from data that is part of the stored data; means for comparing data representing a segment of the body of information to data representing a different segment of the body of information to determine whether, according to one or more predetermined criteria, the compared segments are related, wherein said data representing a segment of the body of information comprises a first vector representing the content of said segment, said data representing a different segment of the body of information comprises a second vector representing the content of said different segment, and determining whether the segments are related comprises calculating a normalized dot product of said first and second vectors, the normalized dot product representing a degree of similarity between immediately adjacent video frames; second display means for generating a display of a portion of, or a representation of, a second segment of the body of information from data that is part of the stored data, wherein the second display means displays the portion or representation of the second segment in response to the display by the first display means of a first segment to which the second segment is related; and means for controlling the first display means to automatically display in sequence summaries of a plurality of segments.