Various methods and apparatuses for moving thumbnails
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1. A method for a generating relevant moving thumbnail from a moving thumbnail generator hosted on a server, comprising:
- generating two or more moving thumbnails that are tagged with information about content that takes place in an associated original video file and metadata about that content, wherein each of the moving thumbnails is associated with an arbitrary video trigger event and comprises two or more frames derived from its associated video file, a first moving thumbnail providing a first animation based on two or more frames in sequence and associated with a first video file, a second moving thumbnail providing a second animation based on two or more frames in sequence and associated with a second video file, wherein the first animation and the second animation are displayed on a video wall in a grid pattern at the same time with animations associated with other moving thumbnails included in a search result;
associating a relational link back to the original video file with each moving thumbnail, where the relational link can used to retrieve the original video file;
storing the two or more moving thumbnails on a database associated with the server, where a tag associated with the first moving thumbnail contains the information about content that takes place in the first original video file in a searchable format, and a portion of the original video file that is relevant to a user'"'"'s query input for relevant moving thumbnails to the query is returned in each moving thumbnail that is displayed as the search results to the user'"'"'s query input; and
based on detecting a cursor hovering over the first moving thumbnail, causing the first moving thumbnail to enlarge, causing audio information associated with the first moving thumbnail to be audible, and causing textual description of content of the first moving thumbnail to be visible.
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Abstract
Various methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for a moving thumbnail generator. The moving thumbnail generator generates one or more moving thumbnails that are visually and aurally representative of the content that takes place in an associated original video file. Each of the moving thumbnails has two or more moving frames derived from its associated original video file. Each moving thumbnail is stored with a relational link back to the original video file in order so that the moving thumbnail can be used as a linkage back to the original video file.
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1. A method for a generating relevant moving thumbnail from a moving thumbnail generator hosted on a server, comprising:
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generating two or more moving thumbnails that are tagged with information about content that takes place in an associated original video file and metadata about that content, wherein each of the moving thumbnails is associated with an arbitrary video trigger event and comprises two or more frames derived from its associated video file, a first moving thumbnail providing a first animation based on two or more frames in sequence and associated with a first video file, a second moving thumbnail providing a second animation based on two or more frames in sequence and associated with a second video file, wherein the first animation and the second animation are displayed on a video wall in a grid pattern at the same time with animations associated with other moving thumbnails included in a search result; associating a relational link back to the original video file with each moving thumbnail, where the relational link can used to retrieve the original video file; storing the two or more moving thumbnails on a database associated with the server, where a tag associated with the first moving thumbnail contains the information about content that takes place in the first original video file in a searchable format, and a portion of the original video file that is relevant to a user'"'"'s query input for relevant moving thumbnails to the query is returned in each moving thumbnail that is displayed as the search results to the user'"'"'s query input; and based on detecting a cursor hovering over the first moving thumbnail, causing the first moving thumbnail to enlarge, causing audio information associated with the first moving thumbnail to be audible, and causing textual description of content of the first moving thumbnail to be visible. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An apparatus, comprising:
a moving thumbnail generator hosted on a server to generate two or more moving thumbnails, the server hosting a search engine having a content categorizer to allow a user to select to include or exclude various categories of content from which the search results may come from, each of the two or more moving thumbnails is associated with an arbitrary video trigger event and is visually and aurally representative of content of an associated original video file, wherein each of the two or more moving thumbnails comprises two or more frames in sequence and derived from its associated original video file to provide a visual content summary of that original video file, wherein each moving thumbnail is stored with a relational link back to the original video file, the moving thumbnail used as an anchor back to the original video file, and wherein the two or more moving thumbnails are displayed together in a grid pattern to form a video wall, and wherein the two or more frames in each of the moving thumbnails on the video wall are displayed in sequence. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus, comprising:
a server hosting a search engine having a user interface associated with an animated thumbnail generator, and a user'"'"'s query input stored on a computer readable medium, the user interface allowing a user to cause results from the search engine to be displayed based on weights of the results as related to date bias values set by the user, wherein the search engine is configured to find two or more video files based on a user'"'"'s query input and the user interface is configured to present a search result of generated animated thumbnails of the two or more video files, each of the animated thumbnails providing a summary of a visual content of a corresponding video file, wherein each of the animated thumbnails comprises two or more frames in sequence and derived from its associated video file from the two or more video files returned with the search result and wherein one or more relational links exist between a displayed animated thumbnail and its associated video file, wherein each of the animated thumbnails is displayed adjacent to one or more other animated thumbnails in a video wall all at the same time, wherein the first animated thumbnail and the second animated thumbnail are stored in a thumbnail data store as video clips, and wherein a portion of a video file that is relevant to the user'"'"'s query input is returned in each animated thumbnail that is displayed with the search results. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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