US 8,798,169 B2 · Data summarization system and method for summarizing a data stream

Abstract

In order to further develop a method for summarizing at least one data stream (12) as well as a corresponding data summarization system (100) comprising at least one receiving means (10) for receiving at least one data stream (12) in such way that at least one summary is available immediately after receiving of the data stream (12), in particular immediately after content acquisition and/or recording and/or encoding and/or decoding of the data stream without any post-processing operation, it is proposed to provide—at least one selecting means (30) for selecting part (32, 32′) of the data stream portions and at least one processing means (70) for generating at least one summary by summarizing at least part of the selected data stream portions (32′) in particular until at least one predetermined summary volume is obtained, wherein the summary is generated during the receiving of the data stream (12).

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Dependent claims

A data summarization system comprising at least one encoder for receiving at least one data stream,

characterized by
at least one summarizer configured to select part of the data stream portions and
at least one summary player configured to generate at least one summary by summarizing at least part of the selected data stream portions in particular until at least one predetermined summary volume is obtained, wherein the summary is generated during the receiving of the data stream, wherein the generation of the summary is completed at the same time or before the receiving of the data stream is completed.

A method for summarizing at least one data stream, characterized by

selecting part of the data stream portions and
generating at least one summary by summarizing at least part of the selected data stream portions in particular until at least one predetermined summary volume is obtained, wherein the summary is generated during receiving the data stream,
wherein the generation of the summary is completed at the same time or before the receiving of the data stream is completed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description4,956 words

Summary3,003 words

#The present invention relates to a data summarization system, in particular to a summarization system for a plurality of images, such as for video content or for collections of digital photographs, comprising at least one receiving means for receiving at least one data stream comprising a plurality of data segments with a plurality of data stream portions, in particular for recording and/or for encoding and/or for decoding at least one video content stream.

#The present invention further relates to a method for summarizing at least one data stream comprising a plurality of data segments with a plurality of data stream portions, in particular for summarizing at least one video content stream.

#Hard disk video recorders and optical disk video recorders allow users to store hundreds of hours of T[ele]V[ision] programs.

Brief description of the drawings2 figures

#As already discussed above, there are several options to embody as well as to improve the teaching of the present invention in an advantageous manner. To this aim, reference is made to the claims respectively dependent on claim 1 and on claim 8; further improvements, features and advantages of the present invention are explained below in more detail with reference to a preferred embodiment by way of example and to the accompanying drawings where

#FIG. 1 schematically shows a preferred embodiment of the data summarization system according to the present invention being operated according to the method of the present invention; and

#FIG. 2 schematically shows a preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention.

Detailed description1,837 words

#FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the data summarization system 100, namely a video content summarization system, more particularly a real-time video summarization system, for summarizing the content of at least one data stream 12, in particular of at least one video content stream.

#Source of the data stream, in particular content source, can be for example at least one cable T[ele]V[ision] tuner, at least one satellite tuner, at least one a hard disk or optical disk drive and/or at least one Internet streaming connection.

#For receiving the video content stream 12 the video summarization system 100 comprises a receiving means 10 being designed for receiving and for recording in particular for encoding the video content stream 12.

Facts

Application

12/298,205Filed 16 Apr 2007

Priority

EP 0611281220 Apr 2006

Published

US 2009/0185626 A123 Jul 2009

Granted

5 Aug 2014

Term ends

11 Mar 2031

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 1,425 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification2 codes

G06F 16/739
Presentation of query results: in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having…
G06F
Computing and data processing

Timeline

20 Apr 2006Priority claimedEP 06112812
16 Apr 2007Application filedUS 12/298,205
23 Oct 2008Assigned to NXP, B.V.assignment of assignor's interest
23 Jul 2009PublishedUS 2009/0185626 A1
5 Aug 2014GrantedUS 8,798,169 B2
7 Mar 2016Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.security agreement supplement
14 Jul 2016Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12092129 previously recorded on reel 038017 frame 0058. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
9 May 2017Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12681366 previously recorded on reel 039361 frame 0212. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
9 May 2017Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12681366 previously recorded on reel 038017 frame 0058. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
10 Sep 2019Assigned to NXP B.V.release of security interest
22 Oct 2019Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12298143 previously recorded on reel 042985 frame 0001. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
22 Oct 2019Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12298143 previously recorded on reel 039361 frame 0212. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
22 Oct 2019Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12298143 previously recorded on reel 038017 frame 0058. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
22 Oct 2019Assigned to Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.corrective assignment to correct the remove application 12298143 previously recorded on reel 042762 frame 0145. assignor(s) hereby confirms the security agreement supplement.
11 Aug 2020Assigned to Goodix Technology (Hk) Company Limitedassignment of assignor's interest
12 Oct 2026TodayWithin its term
11 Mar 2031Term endsEstimated, includes 1,425 days of adjustment

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