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Method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval
Assignee: AT&T Inc
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Filing: 1996-07-15
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Granted: 2000-08-01
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Expires: 2016-07-15
Abstract
Abstract A compressed rendition of a video program is provided in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval. An electronic pictorial transcript representation of the video program is initially received. The video program has a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith. The pictorial transcript representation includes a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of the second media component associated with the segment. The electronic pictorial transcript is transformed into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript. The hypertext pictorial transcript is subsequently recorded in an electronic medium.
Inventors
- 👤 David Crawford Gibbon
- 👤 Behzad Shahraray
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 10:03
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/70; G06F16/74; G06F16/748; G06F16/73; G06F16/738; G06F16/739; G06F16/78; G06F16/783; G06F16/7844; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/912; Y10S707/913; Y10S707/914; Y10S707/99941; Y10S707/99944; Y10S707/99945; Y10S707/99948
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 30
Claim 1
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval, said method comprising the steps of: receiving electronic data representing a condensed version of a video program, said video program having a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith, said electronic data representation including a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of said second media component associated with said segment; automatically transforming said electronic data representation into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript; and recording said hypertext pictorial transcript in an electronic medium.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval, said method comprising the steps of: receiving electronic data representing a condensed version of a video program, said video program having a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith, said electronic data representation including a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of said second media component associated with said segment; automatically transforming said electronic data representation into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript; and recording said hypertext pictorial transcript in an electronic medium.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said second media component is closed-caption text.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said second media component is audio and wherein said portions of said audio component are represented by hypertext anchors.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext format is hypertext markup language.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext pictorial transcript comprises a plurality of hypertext pages, each of said pages having a prescribed maximum size.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 5 wherein said prescribed maximum size is determined by a maximum number of frames per page.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 5 wherein said plurality of hypertext pages are interconnected by hypertext links.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext pictorial transcript has at least one standard page layout.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 8 wherein said standard page layout includes a subset of representative frames selected by at least one criterion that reduces bandwidth.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes substantially redundant representative frames.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of replacing said substantially redundant frames with hypertext anchors.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes alternating ones of sequentially occurring representative frames.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes representative frames below a prescribed image size.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes representative frames above a prescribed image size.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes representative frames that differ from other representative frames by less than a prescribed amount.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes representative frames taken from segments below a threshold length.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 9 wherein said criterion removes representative frames taken from advertisements.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext pictorial transcript has a user customizable page layout.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of generating and recording an index page to the hypertext pictorial transcript.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 19 wherein said index page includes links to individual pages of the hypertext pictorial transcript.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 20 wherein said index page includes hypertext index terms indexed to pages of the hypertext pictorial transcript.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext pictorial transcript has a plurality of standard page layouts selectable by a user.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of transmitting said hypertext pictorial transcript over a communications network.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 23 wherein said network is the World Wide Web.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
16 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said hypertext pictorial transcript comprises a plurality of hypertext pages.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 25 wherein said hypertext pages are divided based on topic segmentation.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method of claim 25 wherein said hypertext pages are divided based on a change in closed-caption format.
Claim 29
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval, said method comprising the steps of: receiving electronic data representing a condensed version of a video program, said video program having a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith, said electronic data representation including a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of said second media component associated with said segment; automatically transforming said electronic data representation into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript; and recording said hypertext pictorial transcript in an electronic medium.
Claim 30
Independent Claim
110 words
A method for automatically providing a compressed rendition of a video program in a format suitable for electronic searching and retrieval, said method comprising the steps of: receiving electronic data representing a condensed version of a video program, said video program having a video component and a second information-bearing media component associated therewith, said electronic data representation including a representative frame from each segment of the video component of the video program and a portion of said second media component associated with said segment; automatically transforming said electronic data representation into a hypertext format to form a hypertext pictorial transcript; and recording said hypertext pictorial transcript in an electronic medium.
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