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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A VIDEO SYNOPSIS

  • US 20090219300A1
  • Filed: 11/15/2006
  • Published: 09/03/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for creating a synopsis video by transforming a source sequence of video frames of a first dynamic scene captured at regular time intervals to a shorter synopsis sequence of video frames depicting a second dynamic scene, the method comprising:

  • (a) source sequence that show movement of at least one object, each source object being a connected subset of image points from at least three different frames of the source video;

    (b) selecting from said subset portions that show non-spatially overlapping appearances of the at least one object in the source sequence; and

    (c) copying said portions from at least three different source frames to at least two successive frames of the synopsis sequence without changing the image location of said portions and such that at least one of the frames of the synopsis sequence contains at least two portions that appear at different frames in the source sequence.

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