Patent Document ID: 8364698
Application ID: 12502202
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying video content comprising the steps of: identifying, for each of the multiple videos, sequences of frames of each video as comprising respective scenes; determining, for each of the multiple videos, visual relevance rank of each of the scenes, wherein the step of determining the visual relevance rank of each of the scenes comprises: identifying one or more visual objects appearing in each of the scenes that corresponds to a target object specified by search criteria; extracting the visual objects; and ranking the visual objects based on a visual significance of the visual objects within each of the multiple videos; selecting, for each of the multiple videos, a number of the scenes based on the visual relevance rank associated with each of the scenes; identifying, for each of the multiple videos, a representative thumbnail frame within each of the selected scenes; determining, for each of the multiple videos, whether to display the representative thumbnail frame within each of the selected scenes based on measuring the distance between one or more objects appearing between any two representative thumbnail frames; and displaying together (i) a first thumbnail, for each of the multiple videos, corresponding to one of the representative thumbnail frames based on the visual relevance rank of the associated scene and (ii) a filmstrip, for each of the multiple videos, the filmstrip including the representative thumbnail frames displayed in accordance with a temporal sequence corresponding to an order of appearance of the selected scenes in each of the multiple videos.