Information processing apparatus and method and program therefor

• US 20060056796A1
• Filed: 09/09/2005
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Inoue, Masayuki, Sugawara, Taku, Yoshioka, Keiichi, Nishizawa, Kazuto, Sakai, Shinji, Mori, Masakazu, Fukuda, Yohei
• Application Number:
  US11/221,669
• Publication Number:
  US 20060056796A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/240
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: a selection unit for analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to at least one still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and a playback unit for playing back a music track selected by a user, applying at least one effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

selection means for analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to at least one still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and

playback means for playing back a music track selected by a user, applying at least one effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selection means selects related information, which is obtained on the basis of the attribute information units added to the still image to be played back, as the predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the selection means obtains the related information from a predetermined server connected via a network, an internal storage medium, or a removable storage medium.

4. The apparatus according to claim l, wherein the playback means applies the effect related to the music track selected by the user to continuously display a plurality of still images with the effect.

5. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to at least one still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and

playing back a music track selected by a user, applying at least one effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.

6. A program allowing a computer to execute a process comprising the steps of:

analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to at least one still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and

playing back a music track selected by a user, applying at least one effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a selection unit for analyzing attribute information units, which are added upon shooting to a still image to be played back, and selecting a predetermined attribute information unit to be displayed together with the still image; and

a playback unit for playing back a music track selected by a user, applying an effect related to the music track selected by the user, and displaying the still image and text indicating the selected predetermined attribute information unit with the effect on the same screen.