Patent Document ID: 8841534
Application ID: 13726874
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of analyzing videos, said method comprising: providing a digital database comprising a plurality of digital video files; selecting one of said digital video files for analysis; if necessary, transforming said one of said digital video files into a selected format comprising sequences of frames or photograms and audio files; processing said one of said digital video files to extract video descriptors and metadata and to establish a plurality of parameters, said parameters being representative of characteristics of said one of said digital video files, said automatic perceptual analysis processing further comprising: processing said one of said digital video files to calculate statistics for parameters selected from the group consisting of: amount of red, amount of green, amount of blue, saturation, light level/luminosity, tone, light level period, and Hu's Momentum; calculating tone and saturation histogram; evaluating structures made up of lines to determine visual complexity of an image; calculating an amount of movement between two consecutive frames/photograms; analyzing scene frequency in grey scale, and for components in red, green, and blue; and measuring scene complexity using color segmentation; processing said one of said digital video files to establish correlations among said video descriptors; and establishing an output measure that relates said video descriptors with audience data.