Summarization of baseball video content

• US 7,143,354 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2001
• Issued: 11/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America Incorporated (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sampsell, Jeffrey B., Li, Baoxin
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid, Kristine
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LE V
• Application Number:
  US09/934,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20030034996A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,926 Days
• Field of Search: 382173-231, 382/103, 382/104, 382/106, 345/721, 345723-725, 345/589, 348/169, 348/231.2, 725/34, 725/133, 715/716, 715/725
• US Class Current: 715/725
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/739 in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having synthesized frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7834 using audio features
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/785 using colour or luminescence

Abstract

Summarization of video content that includes the identification of a plurality of segments from a Video including baseball. In some embodiments the system does not use a model sequence of frames.

Claims

1. A method of processing a video including baseball comprising:

(a) identifying a plurality of segments of said video, wherein the start of said plurality of segments is identified based upon detecting at least one spatial region of a generally homogeneous green color in a generally lower region of said video and at least two spatial regions of a generally homogeneous brown color in a pair of spaced apart spatial horizontal regions where said generally homogeneous green region is between said horizontal regions, where each of said segments includes a plurality of frames of said video; and

(b) creating a summarization of said video by including said plurality of segments, where said summarization includes fewer frames than said video.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising detecting at least two regions of said generally green color.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising detecting at least two regions of said generally brown color.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising detecting at least two regions of said generally green color.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said green color and said brown color are generally vertically aligned.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said green color region and said brown color region have sufficient horizontal spatial extent.

7. A method of processing a video including baseball comprising:

(a) identifying a plurality of segments of said video, wherein the start of said plurality of segments is identified based upon detecting at least three spatial regions of horizontally oriented regions of generally homogenous colors including at least one of generally homogeneous brown and generally homogenous green, where each of said segments includes a plurality of frames of said video; and

(b) creating a summarization of said video by including said plurality of segments, where said summarization includes fewer frames than said video.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein at least two of said regions have the same dominant color.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein at all of said at least three regions have different said colors.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said at least two regions are located on opposing sides of another said detected region of a different color.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein said one of said regions is generally brown and another of said regions is generally green.