Patent Document ID: 8432492
Application ID: 12933539
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of adapting video images to small screen sizes of portable handheld terminals, said method starting from a metadata aggregation and the corresponding video, wherein (a) video is passed through to a video analysis unit to deliver video and metadata; (b) the separated video and the metadata are combined to extract features in a context, wherein metadata information from the metadata is categorized and is used to initialize a dynamically fitted chain of feature extraction steps adapted to delivered video content, (c) extracted features are combined to define regions of interest (ROI) which are searched in consecutive video frames by object tracking, said object tracking identifying a new position and deformation of each ROI, which are initialized, in the consecutive video frames and returns the new position and the deformation for feature extraction thereby obtaining permanent communication between said feature extraction and said object tracking, (d) at least one ROI is extracted and supplied, video frame by video frame, to a cropping step, (e) based on weighting information, a well composed image part is cropped by classifying said supplied at least one ROI based on at least one specified criterion, and (f) said cropped image part is scaled to a desired small screen size.