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Video booklet

  • US 7,840,898 B2
  • Filed: 11/01/2005
  • Issued: 11/23/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
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1. A method implemented at least in part by a computing device executing computer-executable instructions stored in storage media, the method comprising:

  • dividing a video recording into segments;

    deriving, for each segment, a digital thumbnail image to represent the segment, the digital thumbnail image comprising a photo of a scene of the segment;

    reshaping the thumbnail images using a pre-trained shape template such that each thumbnail image comprises an outline shape contour surrounding the photo;

    storing the digital thumbnail images that represent the segments in a database;

    printing each digital thumbnail image on paper to create a paper collection of thumbnail images;

    receiving one of the printed thumbnail images as digital image information captured by a camera as a result of a user taking a photograph of the printed thumbnail image and providing the photograph of the printed thumbnail image to the computing device;

    identifying the outline shape contour of the thumbnail image using an active shape model search;

    based upon the identification, restoring the thumbnail image to a pre-trained template shape of the digital thumbnail image;

    matching, by the computing device, the photograph of the printed thumbnail image with one of the corresponding digital thumbnail images stored in the database; and

    retrieving and playing, by the computing device, the segment represented by the corresponding digital thumbnail image determined to match the received photograph.

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