Security and surveillance systems as well as broadcast media have long relied on recorded video to capture and convey information. In recent years with increased use of mobile devices that include video cameras and web platforms that allow users to share video recordings, video content has increased dramatically. Still, viewer tags and titles of videos are necessary to identify recordings, and viewing of videos in their entirety is required to identify visual information within recordings. This technology is a method and system for users to identify desired content from a video database via a browser interface.
This technology is a method and system that uses content-based search queries to search for and retrieve moving visual information from video recordings, saving the user countless hours watching videos to identify desired content. The method and system comprise server computers for storing video clips and databases of video object attributes. A communications network transmits video clips, a client computer queries specify video object information, and an interactive video player receives the transmitted sequences of frames of video data from the server computers. This system and method provides a video search engine that is able to search for and retrieve specific pieces of video information to meet arbitrary predetermined criteria in response to a user-defined query.
Patent Issued (US 6,741,655)
Tech Ventures Reference: IR MS97/04/18