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Extracting photographic images from video

US6307550A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 23, 1999
Grant dateOct 23, 2001
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Expiry dateJun 23, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N5/85
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Generating photographs from a video. Segments of the video for which frame-to-frame background motion is less than a threshold are identified. For each of the segments, video frames in the segment are combined to generate a photograph representative of the segment.

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