The present invention relates to a method for summarizing a news video stream using a synthetic key frame based upon news video text. The method according to the invention generates the synthetic key frame by allocating different importance measures according to an icon text region and a general text...http://www.google.de/patents/US6954900?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6954900 - Method for summarizing news video stream using synthetic key frame based upon video text