System for facilitating the search of video content
First Claim
1. A system for facilitating the search of video content, comprisinga fingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract image samples from a plurality of digital frames of a video content clip for specific time duration;
- the said fingerprint extractor forms groups of data associated with each of the said video frame;
the said fingerprint extractor forms fingerprint data from plurality of groups of data associated with a plurality of video frames;
a fingerprint database storing fingerprint data extracted from distributed video content, in which database entries are stored according to specific time duration, location, broadcast channel and type of programming content of the distributed video content;
a search module to which at least one database entry matching the specific time duration of original recording of video content are delivered, by which the searched database entries into continuous fingerprint streams are reconstructed, and in which the searched database entries from the same location and channel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps contained within each of the entries;
a matcher by which the fingerprint associated with the video clip is used as query to search from the continuous fingerprint streams to issue a match result if a match has been found; and
a formatter which combines the matching result from the matcher when a match is found with additional information obtained from the fingerprint database comprising time, location, and channel information to form a search report.
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Abstract
A system for facilitating the search of video content, comprising a fingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract a fingerprint associated with a video content clip for specific time of video content; a fingerprint archive database from which database entries matching the specific time of video content are selected; a search module to which the database entries matching the specific time of video content are delivered, by which the searched database entries into continuous fingerprint streams are reconstructed, and in which the searched database entries from the same location and channel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps contained within each entry; a matcher by which the fingerprint associated with the video clip is searched from the continuous fingerprint streams to find a match; and a formatter which is adapted to combine a matching result with additional information obtained from the archive entries to form a search report. The system according to the present invention can extract fingerprint information from video content for the purpose of archiving without the huge storage capacity required, can collect statistics and extract additional information from the archived video information automatically based on the user entered searching video clip information, and can search through video fingerprint data for identifying historical recording and collect statistics and extract additional information of video content easily at low hardware cost.
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1. A system for facilitating the search of video content, comprising
a fingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract image samples from a plurality of digital frames of a video content clip for specific time duration; -
the said fingerprint extractor forms groups of data associated with each of the said video frame; the said fingerprint extractor forms fingerprint data from plurality of groups of data associated with a plurality of video frames; a fingerprint database storing fingerprint data extracted from distributed video content, in which database entries are stored according to specific time duration, location, broadcast channel and type of programming content of the distributed video content; a search module to which at least one database entry matching the specific time duration of original recording of video content are delivered, by which the searched database entries into continuous fingerprint streams are reconstructed, and in which the searched database entries from the same location and channel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps contained within each of the entries; a matcher by which the fingerprint associated with the video clip is used as query to search from the continuous fingerprint streams to issue a match result if a match has been found; and a formatter which combines the matching result from the matcher when a match is found with additional information obtained from the fingerprint database comprising time, location, and channel information to form a search report. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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