Abstract: A method comprising receiving media data in a compressed, digital domain, analyzing motion vectors associated with the received media content while in the compressed digital domain and identifying one or more objects in the received media data based, at least in part, on the motion vector analysis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2000
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2002
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporate
Inventors:
Ruoyu Roy Wang, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Ya-Qin Zhang