Virtual Video Clipping and Ranking Based on Spatio-Temporal Metadata
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1. A video data and metadata storage and retrieval system comprising:
- storage apparatus for storing a plurality of recorded video portions and metadata describing a plurality of geographical locations and corresponding times at which said video portions were recorded; and
a computer configured toquery said stored metadata, identify a plurality of said recorded video portions that correspond to said metadata resulting from said query, andgroup into a video clip any of said identified video portions together into a video clip that are separated by less than a predefined clip gap.
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Abstract
A video data and metadata storage and retrieval system including storage apparatus for storing a plurality of recorded video portions and metadata describing a plurality of geographical locations and corresponding times at which the video portions were recorded, and a computer configured to query the stored metadata, identify a plurality of the recorded video portions that correspond to the metadata resulting from the query, and group any of the identified video portions together into a video clip that are separated by less than a predefined clip gap.
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1. A video data and metadata storage and retrieval system comprising:
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storage apparatus for storing a plurality of recorded video portions and metadata describing a plurality of geographical locations and corresponding times at which said video portions were recorded; and a computer configured to query said stored metadata, identify a plurality of said recorded video portions that correspond to said metadata resulting from said query, and group into a video clip any of said identified video portions together into a video clip that are separated by less than a predefined clip gap. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for storing and retrieving video data and metadata, the method comprising:
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storing a plurality of recorded video portions and metadata describing a plurality of geographical locations and corresponding times at which said video portions were recorded; querying said video and metadata to identify a plurality of said recorded video portions that correspond to said metadata; and grouping into a video clip any of said identified video portions together into a video clip that are separated by less than a predefined clip gap. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer program comprising:
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a first code segment operative to store a plurality of recorded video portions and metadata describing a plurality of geographical locations and corresponding times at which said video portions were recorded; a second code segment operative to query said video and metadata to identify a plurality of said recorded video portions that correspond to said metadata; and a third code segment operative to group into a video clip any of said identified video portions together into a video clip that are separated by less than a predefined minimum clip gap.
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