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Summarization of football video content

  • US 7,474,331 B2
  • Filed: 01/03/2005
  • Issued: 01/06/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of processing a video including football comprising:

  • (a) identifying a plurality of segments of said football video, each of said plurality of segments representative of at least one continuous play and comprising a plurality of consecutive frames, wherein said identifying for the last frame of at least one of said segments is based upon detecting a scene change using a threshold value, dynamically calculated while processing said video, as the sum of said mean frame-to-frame color histogram difference and an integer multiple of said standard deviation frame-to-frame color histogram difference measured over at least a portion of the video; and

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

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