Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

• US 10,212,361 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2014
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shimauchi, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Park, Sunghyoun
• Application Number:
  US14/891,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20160105618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,709 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/806 with processing of the sound signal

Abstract

The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system that make it possible to synchronize recording of time-series data acquired by a plurality of information processing devices. An information processing terminal includes a reception control unit configured to control reception of first time-series data acquired by a plurality of cameras and acquisition times of the first time-series data based on local time, which is time in each of the cameras, and a synchronization control unit configured to determine, on the basis of the first time-series data from the plurality of cameras, start timing or end timing of recording of second time-series data acquired by the plurality of cameras. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a shooting system that performs shooting with a plurality of cameras.

Claims

1. A first information processing device, comprising:

a reception control unit configured to control reception of first time-series data acquired by a plurality of second information processing devices and acquisition times of the first time-series data based on a local time for each of the second information processing devices; and

a synchronization control unit configured to determine, based on the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices, one of start time or end time of recordation of second time-series data acquired by the plurality of second information processing devices.

2. The first information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the synchronization control unit is further configured to:

determine, based on the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices, one of the start time or the end time based on the local time for each of the second information processing devices; and

report the start time or the end time to each of the second information processing devices.

3. The first information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a command unit configured to command the plurality of second information processing devices to start and end the acquisition of the second time-series data.

4. The first information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the synchronization control unit is further configured to determine one of a latest time among times at which the plurality of second information processing devices have started the acquisition of the first time-series data or a first time after the latest time, as the start time of the recordation of the second time-series data.

5. The first information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the reception control unit is further configured to control reception of end times of the acquisition of the second time-series data based on the local time of each of the second information processing devices, and

wherein the synchronization control unit is further configured to determine one of an earliest time among the end times of the plurality of second information processing devices or a first time before the earliest time, as the end time of the recordation of the second time-series data.

6. The first information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising

a correspondence detection unit configured to detect a difference in the local time of each of the second information processing devices based on synchronization of the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices,

wherein the synchronization control unit is further configured to determine the start time or the end time based on the detected difference in the local time of each of the second information processing devices.

7. The first information processing device according to claim 6,

wherein the reception control unit is further configured to control the reception of the first time-series data and the acquisition times of the first time-series data transmitted from the plurality of information processing devices at a specific time interval, and

wherein the correspondence detection unit is further configured to synchronize the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices in parallel with the reception of the first time-series data.

8. The first information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein a first type of the first time-series data at least partly coincides with a second type of the second time-series data.

9. The first information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the first time-series data includes at least one of video data, audio data, or sensor data associated with a sensor of the plurality of second information processing devices, and the second time-series data includes at least one of the video data or the audio data.

10. An information processing method, comprising:

in a first information processing device;

controlling reception of first time-series data acquired by a plurality of second information processing devices and acquisition times of the first time-series data based on a local time for each of the second information processing devices; and

determining, based on the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices, one of start time or end time of recordation of second time-series data acquired by the plurality of second information processing devices.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause a first information processing device to execute operations, the operations comprising:

controlling reception of first time-series data acquired by a plurality of second information processing devices and acquisition times of the first time-series data based on a local time for each of the second information processing devices; and

determining, based on the first time-series data from the plurality of second information processing devices, start time or end time of recordation of second time-series data acquired by the plurality of second information processing devices.