Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110026606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE VISIBILITY OF AN OBJECT IN A DIGITAL PICTURE - The visibility of an object in a digital picture is enhanced by comparing an input video of the digital picture with stored information representative of the nature and characteristics of the object to develop object localization information that identifies and locates the object. The visibility of the object and the region in which the object is located is enhanced by image processing and the enhanced input video is encoded. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026607 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING THE VISIBILITY OF AN OBJECT IN A DIGITAL PICTURE - The visibility of an object in a digital picture is enhanced by comparing an input video of the digital picture with stored information representative of the nature and characteristics of the object to develop object localization information that identifies and locates the object. The input video and the object localization information are encoded and transmitted to a receiver where the input video and the object localization information are decoded and the decoded input video is enhanced by the decoded object localization information | 02-03-2011 |
20110090394 | Communication System with Compressive Sensing - Systems and methods for communication systems with compressive sensing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of signal processing includes receiving a data packet at a processor. The data packet includes compressively measured data in wavelet transform coefficients of a signal. The signal is reconstructed using a clustering property of the wavelet transform coefficients. | 04-21-2011 |
20110119324 | Media Distribution with Service Continuity - System and methods for media distribution are described. In one embodiment, a method of media distribution includes rendering of a media to a user, stopping the rendering of the media, and storing remaining media not rendered to the user in a user server. The method further includes receiving a request to stream the remaining media to the user, dividing the remaining media into segments, and assigning a priority to each segment. The remaining media is streamed, leaving out segments with priority lower than a threshold priority. | 05-19-2011 |
20110184807 | System and Method for Filtering Targeted Advertisements for Video Content Delivery - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of inserting advertisements into video content includes electronically filtering a first list of advertisements according to user preference data to determine a second list of advertisements. The video content has a plurality of segments, each segment of which is associated with a category from the plurality of categories. Furthermore, each advertisement in the first list of advertisements is associated with a video category from a plurality of categories, and electronically filtering includes filtering the first list of advertisements for the plurality of video segments on a segment by segment basis. The method further includes transmitting the second list of advertisements to a user device for insertion with the video content. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185381 | System and Method for Matching Targeted Advertisements for Video Content Delivery - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of matching video content to advertising content includes electronically receiving a video content metadata from a content provider, and matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata of a global list of advertisements. The video content metadata corresponds to video content being sent to a user device and includes at least one keyword. Furthermore, the advertising content metadata corresponds to advertising content and includes at least one keyword. Matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata includes comparing the at least one keyword of the video content metadata to the at least one keyword of the advertising content metadata. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185384 | System and Method for Targeted Advertisements for Video Content Delivery - In accordance with an embodiment, a method of inserting advertisements into video content includes electronically receiving video content metadata from a content provider, matching the video content metadata to advertising content metadata to provide a first list of advertisements, filtering the first list of advertisements according to user preference data to determine a second list of advertisements, and transmitting the second list of advertisements to a user device for insertion into the video content. The video content metadata corresponds to video content being sent to a user device, and the advertising content metadata corresponds to advertising content. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191679 | System and Method for Online Media Preview - An embodiment of a system and method for online media preview extracts a plurality of preview frames from a media file. The preview frames are saved in a layered data structure. In addition, the preview frames may be scaled to a lower resolution so that the preview file formed by the preview frames is reduced in size. After receiving a preview request, a delivery scheduling scheme delivers the preview frames at selected time points to minimize startup delay and playback jitter. | 08-04-2011 |
20120033949 | Video Skimming Methods and Systems - In an embodiment, a method of creating a skimming preview of a video includes electronically receiving a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, where analyzing includes determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot. The method also includes determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame, performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features, and generating a reconstruction reference tree based on the shot clustering. The reconstruction reference tree includes video shots categorized according to each concept pattern. | 02-09-2012 |
20120102154 | Cloud-Based Transcoding Platform Systems and Methods - Methods and systems for transcoding in a cloud computing platform are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a receiver receives an uploading file by one data block at a time, and stores the received data blocks in various storage modules. Small segment files are then generated when the size of the received data blocks is larger than a threshold. A transcoder transcodes the small segment files from one format such as a bit rate or a frame size to another while the receiver is still receiving a new data block. The transcoded small segment files may be stitched together to form a stitched file, which may be stored in a storage module to be downloaded through a content distribution network (CDN). The transcoded small segment files may be passed to streaming servers for streaming over a network while the receiver is still receiving a new data block of the uploading file. | 04-26-2012 |
20120123780 | Method and system for video summarization - A video summary method comprises dividing a video into a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot, determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame of the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame and performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features. The method further comprises fusing different concept patterns using a saliency tuning method and generating a summary of the video based upon a global optimization method. | 05-17-2012 |
20120180084 | Method and Apparatus for Video Insertion - An embodiment of a system and method that inserts a virtual image into a sequence of video frames. The method includes capturing geometric characteristics of the sequence of video frames, employing the captured geometric characteristics to define an area of the video frames for insertion of a virtual image, registering a video camera to the captured geometric characteristics, identifying features in the sequence of video frames to identify the defined area of video frames for insertion of the virtual image, and inserting the virtual image in the defined area. Vanishing points are estimated to determine the geometric characteristics, and the virtual image is blended with the area of video frames prior to inserting the virtual image in the defined area. | 07-12-2012 |
20120242900 | Media Processing Devices For Detecting and Ranking Insertion Points In Media, And Methods Thereof - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for inserting secondary content into a media stream includes dividing the media stream having a plurality of frames into a plurality of shots at a processor. The method further includes grouping consecutive shots from the plurality of shots into a plurality of scenes. A first list of insertion points is generated for introducing the secondary content. The insertion points of the first list are boundaries between consecutive scenes in the plurality of scenes. An average insertion point saliency of the media stream is generated at the insertion points in the first list. A second list of insertion points is then generated. The insertion points in the second list are arranged to maximize a function of the average insertion point saliency and a distance between each insertion point in the second list with other insertion points in the second list. | 09-27-2012 |
20130050574 | System and Method for Retargeting Video Sequences - A system and method for retargeting video sequences are provided. A method for retargeting a video includes a plurality of frames includes determining saliency information for the plurality of frames, determining a cost metric for the video, and retargeting the video based on the cost metric to produce a retargeted video. The cost metric considers loss due to cropping, scaling, temporal factors, and spatial factors. The retargeting makes use of a crop window for each frame in the plurality of frames. | 02-28-2013 |