Original video creating system and recording medium thereof

• US 20030025726A1
• Filed: 07/12/2002
• Published: 02/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eiji Yamamoto, Emerald Blue Co., Ltd., MORI Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Seiichiro Tamai
• Original Assignee: Eiji Yamamoto, Emerald Blue Co., Ltd., MORI Industrial Engineering Laboratory, Seiichiro Tamai
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US10/193,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20030025726A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/723
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/695 Imported photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/218 Write-once discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction

Abstract

Within a housing 33, a display unit 31b to display a screen and so forth by which a user selects a video stream that the user desires, a cash thrown-in slot 31d, a microphone 31e that captures voice of the user, a keyboard 31f that acquires the name and so forth of the user, a scanner 32 that captures a picture of the face and clothes of the user, and a pickup outlet 31h that ejects a CD on which original video is recorded, and so forth are provided. Based on control and authoring processing by a computer device set up within a base unit 31a, the picture and the voice of the user captured by the scanner 32, the microphone 31e and so forth, are integrated into a predetermined scene in the video stream of a movie and so forth held in advance, are recorded on a CD, and the CD is ejected to a pick up outlet 31h.

Claims

1. An original video creating system, comprising:

a video stream memorizing unit operable to memorize video stream in advance;

a picture capturing unit operable to capture a picture of a photographic subject;

a picture combining unit operable to combine the video stream memorized in the video stream memorizing unit and the picture of the photographic subject captured by the picture capturing unit; and

a recording unit operable to record the video streams combined by the picture combining unit on a recording medium.

2. The original video creating system according to claim 1,

wherein the photographic combining unit combines the picture of the photographic subject and the picture in the video stream by integrating the picture of the photographic subject into at least one scene of the picture in the video stream.

3. The original video creating system according to claim 1,

wherein the picture combining unit combines the picture of the photographic subject and the video stream by adding the picture of the photographic subject at the head or at the tail of the video stream.

4. The original video creating system according to claim 1,

wherein the video stream memorizing unit memorizes different and plural video streams,

the original video creating system further includes a combining condition acquisition unit operable to acquire, from an operator, a combining condition that identifies which of the plural video streams are combined with the pictures of the photographic subject, and

the picture combining unit combines the pictures of the photographic subject with the video stream that the combining condition acquired by the combining condition acquisition unit identifies.

5. The original video creating system according to claim 4 further comprising:

a combining mode table memorizing unit operable to memorize a combining mode table that designates modes of the combination corresponding to the plural video streams memorized by the video stream memorizing unit, and

the picture combining unit identifies the mode of the combination corresponding to the video stream that the combining condition acquired by the combining condition acquisition unit identifies, referring to the combining mode table memorizing unit and combines the video stream and the pictures of the photographic subject in the identified mode.

6. The original video creating system according to claim 5,

wherein the mode of combination includes the information that identifies a scene of the video stream that is combined with the picture of the photographic subject, and

the picture combining unit combines the pictures of the photographic subject with the scene.

7. The original video creating system according to claim 6,

wherein the video stream includes plural template pictures which integrate into the scene, and

the picture combining unit integrates a picture of the photographic subject into the scene of the video stream using one picture selected from the plural template pictures.

8. The original video creating system according to claim 7,

wherein the picture capturing unit captures a surface picture of the photographic subject, and

the picture combining unit completes the picture of the photographic subject by pasting the surface picture captured by the picture capturing unit to the selected one template picture, and integrates the completed picture of the photographic subject into the scene.

9. The original video creating system according to claim 8 further comprising:

an operator information acquisition unit operable to acquire an operator'"'"'s gender and age, and

the picture combining unit identifies the one template picture based on the acquired gender and age of the operator, completes the picture of the photographic subject by using the template picture and integrates the completed picture of the photographic subject into the scene.

10. The original video creating system according to claim 1 further includes:

a voice capturing unit operable to capture a voice that the photographic subject makes; and

a voice combining unit operable to integrate a line of the photographic subject acquired based on the voice captured by the voice capturing unit into the video stream.

11. The original video creating system according to claim 10,

wherein the voice combining unit identifies the line that is close to the voice captured by the voice capturing unit from lines of plural tones memorized in advance, and integrates the identified line into the video stream.

12. The original video creating system according to claim 1 comprising,

a unit operable to preview the combined video stream or to edit the combined video stream.

13. The original video creating system according to claim 1 further comprising,

a wrapping unit operable to wrap the recording medium recorded by the recording unit.

14. The original video creating system according to claim 13 further comprising:

a name acquisition unit operable to acquire an operator'"'"'s name from the operator, and

the wrapping unit prints the name acquired by the name acquisition unit on wrapping paper and wraps the recording medium with the wrapping paper.

15. The original video creating system according to claim 1 further comprising,

an ejection unit operable to hand out the recording medium recorded by the recording unit to an operator, and

the ejection unit, the video stream memorizing unit, the picture capturing unit, the picture combining unit and the recording unit are stored in one housing box.

16. An original contents creating system comprising a contents distribution center and an original contents creating device connected through a transmission path,

wherein the original contents distribution center includes:

a contents memorizing unit operable to memorize contents including a voice, a still image and a video stream; and

a transmission unit operable to transmit the contents memorized in the contents memorizing unit to the original contents creating device, and

the original contents creating device includes;

a contents holding unit operable to receive and hold the contents transmitted by the contents distribution center;

a voice and picture capturing unit operable to capture at least one of a voice and a picture of an operator;

a contents integration unit operable to integrate at least one of the voice and the picture captured by the voice and picture capturing unit into the contents held by the contents holding unit; and

a recording unit operable to record the contents integrated by the contents integration unit on a recording medium.

17. The original contents creating system according to claim 16,

wherein the original contents creating device is connected with a device that is at another place through the transmission path by network, transmits the created video to the recording medium of the device through the transmission path, and record the created video on the recording medium.

18. A program for an original contents creating device,

wherein the original contents creating device includes a contents holding unit operable to accumulate and hold plural contents, and

the program causes a computer to function as a voice and picture capturing unit operable to capture at least one of a voice and a picture of an operator;

a contents integration unit operable to integrate at least one of the voice and picture of the operator captured by the voice and picture capturing unit into the contents held by the contents holding unit; and

a recording unit operable to record the contents integrated by the contents integration unit on a recording medium.

19. A recording medium on which a video stream is recorded by an original video creating system,

wherein the original video creating system includes:

a video stream memorizing unit operable to memorize the video stream in advance;

a voice and picture capturing unit to capture at least one of a voice and a picture of an operator;

a combining unit operable to combine the video stream memorized in the video stream memorizing unit with at least one of the voice and the picture captured by the voice and picture capturing unit; and