Digest video specification system, digest video providing system, digest video specifying method, digest video providing method, and medium and program therefor

• US 20050105002A1
• Filed: 01/09/2003
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Maehara, Fumio
• Application Number:
  US10/501,998
• Publication Number:
  US 20050105002A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/552
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• 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 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2627 for providing spin image effect, 3D stop motion effect or temporal freeze effect 2D image animation in general G06T13/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/173 with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal

Abstract

Producing digest video from AV data which includes retrieval means of retrieving multi-angle video from AV data having multi-angle video; digest video specification means of defining the retrieved multi-angle video as digest video; and digest video providing means of providing digest video, and an information terminal which includes receiving means of receiving digest video.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A digest video providing system, comprising:

a digest video providing apparatus of preparing and providing a digest video;

an information terminal of receiving said digest video provided from said digest video providing apparatus and displaying said received digest video, wherein

said digest video providing apparatus has;

retrieval means of retrieving multi-angle video from AV data which is time-sequential and in which the multi-angle video is partially inserted in video which is not the multi-angle video;

digest video specification means of extracting digest video which is multi-angle video from said multi-angle video retrieved by said retrieval means; and

providing means of providing said digest video extracted by the digest video specification means, and

said information terminal has displaying means of receiving and displaying said digest video provided by said providing means.

18. The digest video providing system according to claim 17, wherein said multi-angle video comprises a plurality of videos which are recorded by a plurality of cameras and which proceed concurrently at the same time period and one of which can be selected freely by user.

19. The digest video providing system according to claim 17 or 18, wherein said digest video providing apparatus has an address management table of making correspondence of digest video to AV data of a complete edition, and said providing means provides said AV data of the complete edition using said address management table when said AV data of the complete edition is requested by specifying said digest video.

20. The digest video providing system according to claim 17 or 18, wherein said digest video specification means extracts said digest video from said multi-angle video in just the state said multi-angle video is, and said displaying means can switch and display said multi-angle video.

21. The digest video providing system according to claim 20, wherein said digest video providing apparatus has address management table of including branch target information of multi-angle video, and said displaying means can switch and display said multi-angle video using said branch target information.

22. The digest video providing system according to claim 19, further comprising accounting means of performing an accounting process before transmitting said AV data of said complete edition.

23. The digest video specification system according to claim 17, wherein said AV data is stored on a DVD.

28. A program which is used in a digest video specifying system according to claim 17, and is used to direct a computer to function:

retrieval means of retrieving multi-angle video from AV data which is time-sequential and in which the multi-angle video is partially inserted in video which is not the multi-angle video;

digest video specification means of extracting digest video from said multi-angle video retrieved by said retrieval means;

providing means of providing said digest video extracted by the digest video specification means; and

displaying means of receiving and displaying said digest video provided by said providing means.

24. A digest video providing apparatus of preparing and providing a digest video, comprising;

retrieval means of retrieving multi-angle video from AV data which is time-sequential and in which the multi-angle video is partially inserted in video which is not the multi-angle video;

digest video specification means of extracting digest video from said multi-angle video retrieved by said retrieval means; and

providing means of providing said digest video extracted by the digest video specification means.

25. The digest video providing apparatus according to claim 24, wherein said multi-angle video is composed of a plurality of video which are recorded by a plurality of cameras and which proceed concurrently at the same time period and one of which can be selected freely by user.

26. The digest video providing apparatus according to claim 24 or 25, wherein said digest video specification means extracts said digest video from said multi-angle video in just the state said multi-angle video is.

27. A digest video providing method using a digest video specifying system, including;

a digest video providing apparatus of preparing and providing a digest video;

an information terminal of receiving said digest video provided from said digest video providing apparatus and displaying said received digest video,

a retrieval step of retrieving multi-angle video from AV data which is time-sequential and in which the multi-angle video is partially inserted in video which is not the multi-angle video;

a digest video specification step of extracting digest video from said multi-angle video retrieved by said retrieval step; and

a providing step of providing said digest video extracted by the digest video specification step, and

a displaying step of receiving and displaying on said information terminal said digest video provided by said providing step.