Patent ID: 8432965

Claim:
A method for forming a video summary for a digital video sequence captured with a digital video capture device, comprising: capturing a digital video sequence with the digital video capture device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames; using a processor to automatically analyze at least one of the video frames in the digital video sequence at the time the digital video sequence is captured to determine one or more feature values; compressing the digital video sequence, wherein the analyzed video frames are compressed only after the corresponding feature values have been determined; storing the compressed digital video sequence in a processor-accessible memory; using a processor, only after storing the compressed digital video sequence, to automatically analyze the feature values, without decompressing the stored compressed digital video sequence, to identify one or more key video snippets, each key video snippet corresponding to a set of video frames from the digital video sequence; assembling the key video snippets to form a video summary; and storing a representation of the video summary in a processor-accessible memory.