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US 2001/0018693 A1Published application
Video cataloger system with synchronized encoders
AssigneeVirage, Inc.
InventorsRAMESH JAIN, CHARLES FULLER, MOJGAN MONIKA GORKANI, BRADLEY HOROWITZ, RICHARD D. HUMPHREY, MICHAEL J. PORTUESI, CHIAO-FE SHU
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Abstract
One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video.
Claims17
A video cataloger system, comprising:
- a video cataloger receiving video information and a plurality of time codes associated with the video information, and generating a plurality of digital data tracks indicative of the video information and the time codes;
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- a plurality of video encoders, each encoder receiving the video information and generating a type of encoded digital video data indicative of the video information;
- wherein the video cataloger controls the video encoders to start and stop encoding and stores the start time of each encoder so that the time codes associated with the digital data tracks and the stored start times permit selective access to the encoded digital video data.
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A method of synchronizing a plurality of digital video encoders with a video cataloger, comprising:
- receiving video information at a video cataloger and a plurality of digital video encoders;
- commanding each of the digital video encoders to start encoding;
- storing actual start times associated with the start command for each digital video encoder at the video cataloger;
- encoding the video information at each digital video encoder into a type of encoded digital video data;
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- capturing digital data tracks indicative of the video information at the video cataloger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.