SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND VIDEO/VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE

Title:

SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND VIDEO/VOICE PROCESSING DEVICE

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2000/045604

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A video/voice processing device (10) provided with a scene detection unit (16) which uses feature amounts extracted from video segments and or voice segments divided from an input video data stream and a measuring reference for measuring, using the feature amounts, similarities between pairs of video segments and/or voice segments calculated for each feature amount, so as to detect, out of the video segments and/or voice segments, two video segments and/or voice segments that have a mutual time-wise distance within a preset time threshold and a mutual unsimilarity up to a preset unsilimarity threshold and to integrate the segments into a sene that reflects the semantic structure of the video data contents and consists of time-wise continuous video segments and/or voice segments.

Inventors:

WALKER TOBY (JP)
MATSUBARA HIROSHI (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2000/000423

Publication Date:

August 03, 2000

Filing Date:

January 27, 2000

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Assignee:

SONY CORP (JP)
WALKER TOBY (JP)
MATSUBARA HIROSHI (JP)

International Classes:

G06F17/30; G06T5/00; H04N7/26; H04N7/36; H04N5/14; (IPC1-7): H04N7/32; H04N5/92; G06T7/00

Foreign References:

JPH10257436A	1998-09-25
JPH07193748A	1995-07-28
EP0711078A2	1996-05-08

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