Previewing recorded programs using thumbnails
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsKevin Shields, Li-Juan Qin, Charles Wu, Mark Schwesinger
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed for selecting representative information from a video clip to aid in identifying the video clip. The video clip may be a recorded television program and the representative information may be thumbnails determined to a high degree of certainty to include identifying content from the television program. When a user accesses a list of recorded video clips, the identifying information for each clip may be presented to the user to further assist the user in identifying the recorded video clip.
Claims20
A method for displaying a plurality of representative thumbnails from a video clip for assisting in the identification of the video clip, the method comprising:
- (a) analyzing frames of said video clip to determine which of said frames are stable, wherein said frames determined to be stable compose one or more stable segments of said video clip;
- (b) determining one or more candidate segments from said one or more stable segments, wherein said candidate segments are determined to a degree of certainty to be program segments;
- (c) selecting a plurality of video frames from among said candidate segments;
- (d) saving the plurality of video frames, as a plurality of thumbnails, in association with other metadata about the video clip;
- (e) displaying one or more of the plurality of thumbnails in association with other metadata upon access of a list of stored video clips, the one or more thumbnails assisting in the identification of the video clip;
- (f) receiving an indication to view the plurality of thumbnails;
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- (g) displaying the plurality of thumbnails.
A method for providing representative information from a recorded program for assisting in the identification of the recorded program, the method comprising:
- (a) analyzing said recorded program to identify candidate segments of the recorded program that are determined to a degree of certainty to be segments from recorded program;
- (b) selecting representative information from among said candidate segments;
- (c) saving the representative information in association with other metadata about the recorded program;
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- (d) displaying the representative information in association with other metadata upon access of a list of stored recorded programs.
A system for selecting a plurality of thumbnails from a recorded program, wherein said thumbnail is representative of said program, the system comprising:
- a stable program detector for determining one or more candidate segments from said video clip;
- a thumbnail selector for selecting said representative thumbnails from among said candidate segments;
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- a user interface, including a display and a selection device, the user interface including a display of a plurality of recorded programs, the display of each of the plurality of recorded programs including one or more of the plurality of representative thumbnails selected by the thumbnail selector, selection of a portion of the display of a recorded program via the selection device displaying all of the plurality of thumbnails selected by the thumbnail selector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.