Patent ID: 7734144

Claim:
A method for editing a source video signal comprising: receiving the source video signal; analyzing by a data processor of the source video to identify a shot in the source video signal, a shot in the source video being delimited as between two instances when a frame of the source video signal is substantially different from its immediately preceding frame; analyzing by a data processor of the shot to identify any jerky image motion during the shot; dividing the shot into a plurality of segments until each segment has only a single type of identified jerky motion; classifying by a data processor of the identified jerky motion as one of a plurality of types of jerky motion, one type being that there is no jerky motion; and stabilizing the classified shot taking into account the classified type of jerky motion, such stabilizing being sufficient to generate a corrected shot output video signal in which the jerky motion is substantially removed from the shot in the source video signal.