Motional video browsing data structure and browsing method therefor
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorJung-Min Song
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Abstract
A motional video browsing data structure based upon character relations is disclosed for a system and method of video browsing. In the present invention, the character relation information by which relations between a character and other characters constituting the contents of a motional video are formed and displayed, and information on the variation of relations between characters in the motional video are also displayed.
Claims21
A video browsing systems comprising:
- a character viewer configured to display at least one character of a video story;
- a key frame viewer configured to display at least one key frame of each scene of the video story in which a character selected from the character viewer appears;
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- a video player configured to display the at least one key frame of a selected scene, and configured to display a section of the video story corresponding to the selected scene in response to user input commands, wherein the character viewer displays relations between characters in the video story and wherein the key frame viewer displays at least one key frame of a scene of the video story in which the characters in a selected relation appear together.
A video browsing method comprising:
- (a) displaying at least one character of a video story;
- (b) displaying at least one key frame of each scene of the video story in which a selected character appears;
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- (c) displaying a section of the video story corresponding to a selected scene in response to user input commands, and wherein step (a) further comprises displaying relations between characters in the video story and wherein step (b) displays at least one key frame of a scene of the video story in which the characters in a selected relation appear together.
A method for constructing multimedia data in a video browsing system comprising:
- establishing at least one relationship between characters of a video story for display in a video browsing system;
- establishing at least one scene of a video story in which the characters in the at least one relationship appear together, said at least one scene being linked to the corresponding at least one relationship;
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- establishing at least one key frame linked to each of said at least one scene of the video story in which the characters in the at least one relationship appear together for display in the video browsing system.
A computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a sequence of steps, comprising:
- displaying at least one character of a video story;
- displaying at least one key frame of each scene of the video story in which a selected character appears;
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- displaying a section of the video story corresponding to a selected scene in response to user input commands, wherein displaying the at least one character of the video story further comprises displaying relations between characters in the video story.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.