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Granted Patent B2
US 10,115,022 · App. 15/496,263 · Granted Oct 30, 2018

Thumbnail management

Inventors: Jongsung Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Jae Cheol Kwon (Sejong-si, KR); Il-Hyeon Mun (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: KT CORPORATION
G06K9/00751G06F17/30784G06F17/30849H04N5/147H04N21/23418H04N21/47217H04N21/8456
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Patent No.
US 10,115,022
App. No.
15/496,263
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one example embodiment, thumbnail management for video content includes detecting a plurality of scene change points from the video content, determining a number of analysis windows based on the plurality of detected scene change points, selecting a frame in each of the analysis windows, and storing the selected frame as the thumbnail for the respective analysis window.

Claims (18)

1. A method to select thumbnails corresponding to video content, the method comprising:

detecting a plurality of scene change points from the video content;

setting a number of analysis windows based on the plurality of detected scene change points;

selecting a frame from among frames in each of the analysis windows based on a respective prioritization score for each of the frames in each of the analysis windows;

storing the selected frame as a thumbnail for a respective number of analysis windows; and

providing a user device with the thumbnail for identifying context of the video content.

2. A method to select thumbnails corresponding to video content, the method comprising:

determining at least one of analysis windows for the video content based on a required number of thumbnails;

selecting a frame from among frames in each of the analysis windows based on a respective prioritization score for each of the frames in each of the analysis windows;

storing the selected frame as a thumbnail for the respective at least one of analysis windows; and

providing a user device with the thumbnail for identifying context of the video content.

3. A method to select thumbnails corresponding to video content, the method comprising:

detecting a plurality of scene change points from the video content;

dividing the video content into at least one of portions based on the plurality of detected scene change points;

extracting a frame in each of the portions as a thumbnail based on the plurality of detected scene change points; and

providing a user device with the thumbnail for identifying context of the video content.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising,

responsive to receiving an activation of the thumbnail from the user device, transmitting or streaming the video content to the user device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2018
From: KIM, JONGSUNG; KWON, JAE CHEOL; MUN, IL-HYEON
To: KT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044929/0525 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2014-0140887 · Oct 17, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14884923 · Oct 16, 2015
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