Patent Document ID: 5521841
Application ID: 08221221
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for representing contents of a video sequence for allowing a user to rapidly view a video sequence in order to find a particular desired point within said sequence and/or to decide whether said contents of a video sequence are relevant to a user, said video sequence having been pre-processed to detect scene changes and to build Rframes, an Rframe being a representation of a sequence of images, and for allowing a user to scroll through said Rframes in a given manner and to stop at a selected Rframe for processing, said method comprising: (a) playing said video sequence from the beginning of a shot represented by said selected Rframe to the end of said shot; (b) detecting all Rframes having respective degrees of similarity to said Rframe selected by said user; and (c) presenting said similar Rframes to said user in a size or scale representative of said degrees of similarity.