Patent ID: 7894709

Claim:
A method of creating a collection of relevant video segments by selecting respective portions from a video stream, wherein the video stream corresponds to a program of audio-video information, a duration of the collection of relevant video segments being relatively short compared with a duration of the program, the method comprising: receiving a signal containing transcript information associated with the program, the transcript information including a plurality of sentences; detecting from the signal containing transcript information exclamatory syntactical elements in the sentences, the exclamatory syntactical elements being indicative of catchy and interesting video segments that may be desirable in a video preview; selecting portions from the video stream corresponding to the exclamatory syntactical elements; associating the selected portions with relevant video segments; and generating the video preview in the form of a video trailer or video abstract comprising a collection of relevant video segments, wherein the respective selected portions from the video stream make up the collection of relevant video segments of the video preview that can be used as an overview to browse the program of audio-video information and provide a way to select from various recorded programs which ones to watch, wherein the exclamatory syntactical elements are selected from the group consisting of: exclamation marks, words being expressed with capitals when the words in the transcript are predominantly expressed with lower case letters, sentences comprising words being expressed with capitals when the sentences in the transcript are predominantly expressed with initial capital letters and lower case letters, words being expressed with underlined characters, words being expressed with italic characters, words being expressed with bold characters when the words in the transcript are predominantly expressed without underlining, italic characters or bold characters, and words being expressed with relatively large characters compared with other characters in other sentences in the transcript.