A method of estimating a shot boundary in a digital video sequence comprises calculating a measurement of dissimilarity between each frame in the video sequence and its previous frame based on at least one of de-emphasized luminance differences and absolute color differences. Each frame is tested against...http://www.google.de/patents/US7551234?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7551234 - Method and apparatus for estimating shot boundaries in a digital video sequence
