Patent Document ID: 8645830
Application ID: 11989141

Base Claim:
1. A method for creating a summary of an audiovisual document recorded in an audiovisual receiver and composed of a set of sequences; wherein each first sequence of the document is associated with a one or more other second sequences of the document based on a dependence parameter associating each first sequence with the one or more second sequences, the method comprising: selecting a duration of reproduction of the summary, selecting at least one first sequence with a view to its incorporation in the summary, adding at one or more second sequences to the summary based on a dependence value indicated by the dependence parameter identifying association between the first sequence and the one or more second sequences, wherein the one or more second sequences associated with the first selected sequences are added to the summary according to their dependence values, beginning with second sequences having the highest dependence values iteratively repeating said adding step to create the summary according to the selected duration, wherein the iterative repeating of the adding steps is interrupted when the total duration of the summary reaches the selected duration.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising, at the level of the receiver, receiving a determined dependence value, the one or more second sequences being added to the summary if its dependence value is greater than the received determined dependence value.