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Video editing by locating segment boundaries and reordering segment sequences
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Inventors: Edgar, Albert D.; Penn, Steven C.;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Herndon; Heather R.
Assistant Examiner: Fetting; Anton W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Carwell; Robert M.
Frames associated with sequences of video source material representing a series of scene changes are digitized. A computerized process analyzes the digitized information and identifies one or more frames of the source material associated with and representative of each such scene change and/or sequence. The representative frames are displayed, A selected frame from the display will thereby cause automatic selection and association of a sequence of frames comprising a corresponding video sequence from which the frame was selected for subsequent playback, In a preferred embodiment, the entirety of the representative frames or a subset thereof are specified and ordered. The order of the corresponding frames of video segments or scenes corresponding to each such selected and ordered representative frame are thereby automatically also ordered. Simplified video editing is accomplished by manipulating these representative frames, each associated with a different scene or video sequence. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIG.
1, a typical system providing the environment for implementing the invention may be seen depicted therein and will first be described.
A computer 10 such as a PS/2.
TM.
(Trademark of IBM Corporation) system will execute the steps of the invention via a program loaded therein implementing the process previously described.
The computer will first capture, by means of an appropriate source, such as a camera 12, scanner or via some other medium, an image based upon a source subject 14 which the computer 10 will then digitize for subsequent processing.
Alternatively, the images may have been pre-stored in a VCR as the image source 12 and input into computer 10.
The mapped image created in accordance with the invention may be stored for display on a conventional monitor 16 for human observation or otherwise stored on media for eventual display.
A conventional keyboard 18 and other I/O and user-interface devices will further be provided to the computer 10 for interacting to effect the invention.
Inside the computer 142, a system bus 20 is provided which ties together the microprocessor 22, the previously described program 24, which instructs the microprocessor 22 how to execute the steps of the invention, and working memory 26, which the microprocessor 22 utilizes to store intermediate calculations, various lookup tables generally represented at reference numeral 28, the original stored image 30 captured by the camera 12 and the mapped image 32.
Referring now to FIGS.
2-4, a general description of the operation of the invention will be provided with particular reference to the externals, (e.
g.
, user interaction within perception of the user interface).
It will be recalled from a discussion of the system of FIG.
1, that video source material is first digitized, and the computer system then is employed in conjunction with the methods discussed herein to identify boundaries as desired in the video material.
Typically these boundaries will take the form of differing video segments or scenes each represented by a characteristic corresponding frame or frames from which the user may recall the content of the subsection of the video source material associated with the particular frame or frames
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