Image processing system

• US 20040155898A1
• Filed: 07/24/2003
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Taguchi, Shinya, Ogawa, Masakazu, Nagatani, Shunsuke, Egawa, Yutaka, Yamazoe, Nobuyuki, Suzuki, Michitoshi, Kanno, Eisuke
• Granted Patent: US 7,873,905 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

An interface screen used for the correlation between video data and reference picture data includes: a screen 70 for displaying the video data reproduced by a video player; and a screen 73 for displaying a reference picture to be correlated with. When an operator enters an instruction to the operation portion 74 while reproduction video, the data for a reference picture displayed on the screen is correlated with a corresponding reproduction time position of the video data.

Claims

1. An image processing system for correlating still picture data with video data, comprising:

a video display section for reproducing and displaying the video data on a screen;

a picture display section for reproducing and displaying the still picture data on the screen;

a designation section for accepting an instruction from a user to designate the still picture displayed on the screen; and

a correlation section for, upon the instruction entered by the user during the reproduction of the video data, correlating the designated still picture data with a reproduction time position in the video data.

2. An image processing system for correlating still picture data with video data, comprising:

a registered client including

a video display section for reproducing and displaying the video data on a screen,

a picture display section for reproducing and displaying the still picture data on the screen,

a designation section for accepting an instruction from a user to designate the still picture displayed on the screen, and

a correlation section for, upon the instruction entered by the user during the reproduction of the video data, correlating the designated still pictured at a with are production time position in the video data; and

a distribution server for holding the video data and the still picture data that are correlated with each other, and in accordance with a request from a browsing client, providing the video data and the still picture data.

3. An image processing system according to claim 2, wherein

the distribution server distributes, to the browsing client, correlation data for video data and still picture data, and provides the still picture data requested by the browsing client.

4. An interface for a correlation process in which, in accordance with an instruction from a user entered during the reproduction of video data, still picture data that are designated by the user is correlated with a reproduction time position in the video data, the interface comprising:

a video display section for reproducing the video data and displaying the obtained video picture; and

a picture display section for reproducing the still picture data and the obtained still picture, wherein

the video display section and a picture display section are provided on the same screen.

5. An image processing method for correlating still picture data with video data, comprising the steps of:

reproducing and displaying the video data on a screen, and reproducing and displaying the still picture data on the screen; and

in accordance with an instruction entered by a user during the reproduction of the video data to designate a still picture, correlating the corresponding still picture data with a reproduction time position in the video data.

6. An image processing method for registering still picture data in correlation with video data to a distribution server that provides the video data and the still picture data upon the reception of a request from a browsing client, the image processing method comprising the steps of:

reproducing and displaying video data on a screen, and reproducing and displaying still picture data on the screen;

correlating a corresponding still picture data with a reproduction time position in the video data, in accordance with an instruction entered by a user during the reproduction of the video data to designate the still picture; and

registering the video data and the still picture data together with correlation data to the distribution server.

7. The image processing method according to claim 6, wherein

the correlation data is a program for requesting the distribution server predetermined still picture data in accordance with the reproduction time position in video data,

in accordance with a request from a browsing client, the distribution server provides video data and the program for the browsing client, and

the browsing client executes the program as the video data are reproduced, and requests the distribution server still picture data that are correlated with the reproduction time position.

8. A program that permits a computer to perform an image process for correlating still picture data with video data, comprising:

displaying a still picture on a screen,

accepting an instruction from a user to designate a still picture during the reproduction of the video data accepts, and

correlating the corresponding still picture data with a reproduction time position in the video data.