Information processing apparatus, relay computer, information processing system, and information processing program

• US 10,379,699 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2014
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Toyoda, Shigeki, Yoshikawa, Jun, Wakatani, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chuang, Jung-Mu T
• Application Number:
  US14/538,275
• Publication Number:
  US 20150172364A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,736 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to acquire and output information of an operation screen on a display unit from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus, arrange the acquired thumbnail image in the region if the thumbnail image requested is acquired, and request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails until the acquisition is succeeded if the acquisition is failed due to the fact that the thumbnail image is not present.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a central processor coupled with a memory storing instructions and a network interface via a bus, the central processor to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to;

acquire and output information of an operation screen on a display from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the at least one moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, the different device being one of a removable recording medium and a live video server, the operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including at least (1) a first region for arranging a thumbnail image of the at least one moving image, the information being described in a structured language, (2) a second region in which a list of moving images stored in the moving image server is displayed, (3) a third region in which another list of moving images stored in the different device is displayed, and (4) a fourth region in which a relay state of the at least one moving image is displayed, the fourth region including at least one progress display configured to indicate a progress on the different device in a relay processing per a moving image, the fourth region including a button to cancel the instructions and a status field configured to support at least five different textual terms, a first textual term indicating that a job is under execution, a second textual term indicating that all jobs of a job group are completed, a third textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are abnormally terminated, a fourth textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are canceled, and a fifth textual term indicating that a job of the job group is abnormally terminated and one or more jobs of the job group are completed,

request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the first region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

start a web page full screen drawing based on the requested thumbnail image,

repeatedly re-request the thumbnail image to the relay apparatus and the requested thumbnail image not being present, upon which deliberately no error is displayed,

acquire the requested thumbnail image after a sleep to wait for a completion of generation of the requested thumbnail image in the relay apparatus, and

complete the web page full screen drawing based on the acquired thumbnail image.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the instructions, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to output, when the requested thumbnail image is not acquired, an alternative image to the operation screen until the acquisition is succeeded and the acquired thumbnail image is outputted to the operation screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the instructions, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to request the thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails, at time intervals defined in advance.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the instructions, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to start the relay based on a graphical user interface (GUI) operation defined in advance with respect to the thumbnail image on the operation screen.

5. An information processing system, comprising:

a moving image server storing at least one moving image;

a relay apparatus configured to relay the at least one moving image from the moving image server to a different device via a network, the different device being one of a removable recording medium and a live video server and store information of an operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including at least (1) a first region for arranging a thumbnail image of the at least one moving image, the information being described in a structured language, (2) a second region in which a list of moving images stored in the moving image server is displayed, (3) a third region in which another list of moving images stored in the different device is displayed, and (4) a fourth region in which a relay state of the at least one moving image is displayed, the fourth region including at least one progress display configured to indicate a progress on the different device in a relay processing per a moving image, the fourth region including a button to cancel instructions and a status field configured to support at least five different textual terms, a first textual term indicating that a job is under execution, a second textual term indicating that all jobs of a job group are completed, a third textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are abnormally terminated, a fourth textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are canceled, and a fifth textual term indicating that a job of the job group is abnormally terminated and one or more jobs of the job group are completed; and

an information processing apparatus including a central processor coupled with a memory storing the instructions and a network interface via a bus, the central processor to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to;

acquire and output the information of the operation screen on a display from the relay apparatus,

request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the first region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

start a web page full screen drawing based on the requested thumbnail image,

repeatedly re-request the thumbnail image to the relay apparatus and the requested thumbnail image not being present, upon which deliberately no error is displayed,

acquire the requested thumbnail image after a sleep to wait for a completion of generation of the requested thumbnail image in the relay apparatus, and

complete the web page full screen drawing based on the acquired thumbnail image.

6. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method comprising:

acquiring and outputting information of an operation screen on a display from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the at least one moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, the different device being one of a removable recording medium and a live video server, the operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including at least (1) a first region for arranging a thumbnail image of the at least one moving image, the information being described in a structured language, (2) a second region in which a list of moving images stored in the moving image server is displayed, (3) a third region in which another list of moving images stored in the different device is displayed, and (4) a fourth region in which a relay state of the at least one moving image is displayed, the fourth region including at least one progress display configured to indicate a progress on the different device in a relay processing per a moving image, the fourth region including a button to cancel the instructions and a status field configured to support at least five different textual terms, a first textual term indicating that a job is under execution, a second textual term indicating that all jobs of a job group are completed, a third textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are abnormally terminated, a fourth textual term indicating that all jobs of the job group are canceled, and a fifth textual term indicating that a job of the job group is abnormally terminated and one or more jobs of the job group are completed,

requesting the thumbnail image to be arranged in the first region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

starting a web page full screen drawing based on the requested thumbnail image,

repeatedly re-requesting the thumbnail image to the relay apparatus and the requested thumbnail image not being present, upon which deliberately no error is displayed,

acquiring the requested thumbnail image after a sleep to wait for a completion of generation of the requested thumbnail image in the relay apparatus, and

completing the web page full screen drawing based on the acquired thumbnail image.