Method for Displaying Video Data on a Personal Device

Abstract

This invention relates to the sphere of data-processing and data-displaying methods. A method for displaying video data on a personal device comprising the following steps: (a) receiving at least one video frame from at least one video source; (b) receiving at least one bounding box corresponding to the location of an alarm object and/or event on the video frame; (c) extracting from the video frame an image portion containing the alarm object and/or event in accordance with the corresponding bounding box; (d) rescaling and/or cropping the extracted image portion (the thumbnail) to fit the target thumbnail size; (e) displaying at least one thumbnail on the personal device screen. The invention improves the capacity of the graphic user interface of the personal device to be used for identifying the alarm object and reduces the communication-channel load.

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