Patent ID: 8737702

Claim:
A computer program product for providing one or more video data applications comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to access one or more frames of video data; computer readable program code configured to preprocess said one or more frames of video data to produce one or more preprocessed frames; computer readable program code configured to extract embedded characters from said one or more preprocessed frames; computer readable program code configured to utilize said embedded characters extracted from said one or more preprocessed frames for one or more of a decision support application and an automated archive storage application; and computer readable program code configured to create a feature vector characterizing said one or more frames of video data using said embedded characters; wherein said decision support application further comprises retrieving one or more medical videos having a feature vector similar to said feature vector characterizing said one or more frames of video data; and wherein said one or more medical videos having a feature vector similar to said feature vector characterizing said one or more frames of video data are identified using collaborative filtering.