Automated video logging methods and systems
OwnerDaniel Stieglitzinventor
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods are provided for automatically creating time-based video metadata for a video source and a video playback mechanism. An automated logging process can be provided for receiving a digital video stream, analyzing one or more frames of the digital video stream, extracting a time from each of the one or more frames analyzed, and creating a clock index file associating a time with each of the one or more analyzed frames. The process can further provide for parsing one or more received data files, extracting time-based metadata from the one or more parsed data files, and determining a frame of the digital video stream that correlates to the extracted time based metadata.
Claims17
A system that is adapted to create a clock index;
- the system comprising:
- a logging client, operatively coupling to a network wherein the logging client receives a video frame from the network and the network receives the video frame from a video server;
- a data server, communicatively coupled to the logging client through the network;
- data files, stored in the data server, and further comprising external metadata;
- wherein the logging client is programmed with instructions to:
- analyze the video frame with the logging client;
- extract a time value from the video frame analyzed;
- receive a time-based metadata from the data files;
- associate a time with an assigned identifier value for the video frame and the time-based metadata in a database connected to the logging client;
- associate external metadata within the data files with the time value;
- index the time-based metadata with the assigned identifier value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.