Ex Parte BERGEN et al - Page 3



                    Appeal No. 2003-1967                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 08/970,889                                                                                                                            

                             Independent claim 1 present in the application is                                                                                            
                    representative of Appellants' claimed invention and is reproduced                                                                                     
                    as follows:                                                                                                                                           
                    1.       A method for comprehensively representing video information                                                                                  
                    in a manner facilitating indexing of the video information,                                                                                           
                    comprising the step of:                                                                                                                               
                             segmenting a video stream into a plurality of scenes, each                                                                                   
                    of said scenes comprising at least one video frame;                                                                                                   
                             dividing, using intra-scene motion analysis, at least one of                                                                                 
                    said plurality of scenes into at least one scene foreground layer                                                                                     
                    and a scene background layer;                                                                                                                         
                             representing each scene background layer as a mosaic, said                                                                                   
                    background layer mosaic defining a key frame of a respective                                                                                          
                    scene; and                                                                                                                                            
                             representing each of said at least one video frames forming                                                                                  
                    said scene as a difference between initial video frame imagery                                                                                        
                    and a respective portion of said key frame.                                                                                                           
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                                                                                                    (filed May  15, 1997)                                                 
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                    Shibata et al. (Shibata) ("Content-Based structuring of video                                                                                         
                    information": 0-8186-7436-9/9, 1996 IEEE).                                                                                                            


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