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Multimedia search and indexing for automatic selection of scenes and/or sounds recorded in a media for replay by setting audio clip levels for frequency ranges of interest in the media

  • US 6,452,875 B1
  • Filed: 10/23/2000
  • Issued: 09/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a signal processing system including a multi media search and indexing system for automatic selection of scenes or sounds recorded in a media for replay in other contexts, a method for setting audio clip levels in analyzing the media for a set of frequency ranges of interest for replay, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) selecting an audio clip level for each frequency range as indicative of a scene or sound of interest in the media;

    (b) selecting a time interval in seconds leading an audio level exceeding the clip level;

    (c) selecting a time interval in seconds following the exceeded audio clip level;

    (d) repeating steps (a), (b), and (c) for each frequency range; and

    (e) recording and relating each scene of interest exceeding the audio clip level to the index in the media.

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