Patent ID: 8630529

Claim:
A method comprising: acquiring video data originating from a user; acquiring a plurality of temporal indices and a plurality of representative stills, wherein the plurality of temporal indices indicate a division of the video data into distinct segments and each of the plurality of representative stills represent a distinct segment of the video data wherein acquiring includes evaluating the video data to detect scene transitions including processing successive frames of the video data wherein processing a frame includes identifying a representative portion of the frame including cropping the frame to identify an interior portion of the frame and exclude an exterior portion of the frame adjacent to a boundary of the frame and comparing the representative portion to a representative portion from a prior or next frame of the video data wherein comparing includes comparing a representative portion for each of the prior or next frame including comparing a cropped portion of each frame that includes an interior portion of a respective frame and excludes an exterior portion of the respective frame adjacent to a boundary of the respective frame; and publishing the video data, the plurality of temporal indices and the plurality of representative stills.