A METHOD FOR SPECIFYING A VIDEO WINDOW'S BOUNDARY COORDINATES TO PARTITION A VIDEO SIGNAL AND COMPRESS ITS COMPONENTS

摘要

A method for specifying a video window's boundary coordinates (98) directly from a multi-color video signal (20) to separate the signals high (32) and low (35) variance components. The method converts the analog multi-color video signal into respective color sequences of digital frames (30) and transforms them into another sequence of digital frames (49) that represent the intensity of the multi-color video signal. The method generates difference frames (51) between successive transformed intensity frames and computes a row activity measure (81) and a column activity measure (82) from at least one of the difference frames. The video window's approximate boundary coordinates are determined from said row and column activity measures.