Method and apparatus for authoring and linking video documents

Patent 6462754 Issued on October 8, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 22, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Application

No. 255090 filed on 02/22/1999

Examiners

Primary: Nguyen, Cam N.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Abmed; Adel A.

International Class

G06F 003/00

Abstract

A method for authoring video documents includes the steps of inputting video data to be processed, segmenting the video data into shots by identifying breaks between the shots, subdividing the shots into subshots using motion analysis to provide location information for motions of objects of interest, describing boundaries for the objects of interest in the video data such that the objects of interest are represented by the boundaries in the shots and creating an anchorable information unit file based on the boundaries of the objects of interest such that objects of interest are used to identify portions of the video data. A system is also included.