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Interactive montages of sprites for indexing and summarizing video

  • US 7,982,738 B2
  • Filed: 12/01/2004
  • Issued: 07/19/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for viewing and interacting with video sprites generated from a video stream, comprising:

  • a device for receiving a video stream,a device for processing the video stream to generate a set of one or more video sprites, with each video sprite corresponding to a separate unique event detected in the video stream;

    a device for extracting a common background image from the video stream;

    a device for generating at least one static sprite montage of the video sprites by arranging one or more of the video sprites in fixed positions on a copy of the common background image to create each static sprite montage;

    a device for generating at least one dynamic sprite montage by creating an animation of one or more of the video sprites in each static sprite montage against a copy of the common background image;

    a device for displaying one or more of the static sprite montages in an interactive user interface; and

    a device for displaying one or more of dynamic sprite montages in the interactive user interface.

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