Video processing system
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1. A method comprising:
- acquiring video data originating from a user;
acquiring a plurality of temporal indices and a plurality of representative stills, wherein the plurality of temporal indices indicate a division of the video data into distinct segments and each of the plurality of representative stills represent a distinct segment of the video data wherein acquiring includesevaluating the video data to detect scene transitions including processing successive frames of the video data wherein processing a frame includes identifying a representative portion of the frame including cropping the frame to identify an interior portion of the frame and exclude an exterior portion of the frame adjacent to a boundary of the frame and comparing the representative portion to a representative portion from a prior or next frame of the video data wherein comparing includes comparing a representative portion for each of the prior or next frame including comparing a cropped portion of each frame that includes an interior portion of a respective frame and excludes an exterior portion of the respective frame adjacent to a boundary of the respective frame; and
publishing the video data, the plurality of temporal indices and the plurality of representative stills.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing video content. The method includes acquiring video data from a source. If the video data is not digitized, then the video data is digitized. The method includes generating scene indexes for the video data including a representative still image for each scene and combining the video data and scene indexes along with a media player on a video disc. The video player is operable to play the video data in accordance with the scene indexes including playing a scene from the video data on a client computer while displaying the representative stills for other of the scenes available for display on the video disc.
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1. A method comprising:
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acquiring video data originating from a user; acquiring a plurality of temporal indices and a plurality of representative stills, wherein the plurality of temporal indices indicate a division of the video data into distinct segments and each of the plurality of representative stills represent a distinct segment of the video data wherein acquiring includes evaluating the video data to detect scene transitions including processing successive frames of the video data wherein processing a frame includes identifying a representative portion of the frame including cropping the frame to identify an interior portion of the frame and exclude an exterior portion of the frame adjacent to a boundary of the frame and comparing the representative portion to a representative portion from a prior or next frame of the video data wherein comparing includes comparing a representative portion for each of the prior or next frame including comparing a cropped portion of each frame that includes an interior portion of a respective frame and excludes an exterior portion of the respective frame adjacent to a boundary of the respective frame; and publishing the video data, the plurality of temporal indices and the plurality of representative stills. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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