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Scene information extraction method, and scene extraction method and apparatus

US8001562B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 19, 2007
Grant dateAug 16, 2011
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Expiry dateJun 15, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04H60/58
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus includes unit acquiring comment information items related to video content, each of the comment information items including a comment, and a start time and an end time of the comment, unit dividing the comment into words by morpheme analysis for each of the comment information items, unit acquiring an estimated value of each of the words, the estimated value indicating a degree of importance used when the scenes are extracted, unit adding the acquired estimated value of each of the words for each of the words during a period of time ranging from the start time to the end time of the comment that contains a corresponding word to acquire estimated value distributions of the words, and unit extracting a start time and an end time of one scene and to be extracted from the video content, based on a shape of the estimated value distributions.

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