The present invention relates to a system for searching and browsing multimedia, and more particularly, to a video skimming method and apparatus which is capable of summarizing the full content of a subject video data within a short time and rapidly moving to a desired section by skimming the content...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6964021?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6964021 - Method and apparatus for skimming video data