Moving image processing unit, moving image processing method, and moving image processing program

• US 20060082664A1
• Filed: 04/22/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Naofumi, Miyazaki, Jun
• Application Number:
  US11/111,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20060082664A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19671 Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/903 using variable electrical capacitive recording H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9201 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the video signal

Abstract

A moving image processing unit has a sensor management unit and an attachment unit. The sensor management unit manages sensors that detect at least one of a person, an object, a movement of the person or the object, and sound information as sensor information, while a moving image is being captured. The attachment unit attaches metadata to the moving image, after checking a combination of the sensor information based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit.

Claims

1. A moving image processing unit comprising:

a sensor management unit that manages sensors that detect at least one of a person, an object, a movement of the person or the object, and sound information as sensor information, while a moving image is being captured; and

an attachment unit that attaches metadata to the moving image, after checking a combination of the sensor information based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit.

2. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a memory that stores the metadata, wherein the metadata is referred to by the attachment unit and a meaning of the combination of the sensor information is reflected in the metadata.

3. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a recording controller that records the sensor information associated with the metadata in a database.

4. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image recording unit that records the moving image together with time information in a database.

5. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a search unit that searches the moving image based on a search condition and the metadata.

6. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

an ID management unit that manages at least one of the person, the object, and the movement of the person and the object, by an ID.

7. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a time offering unit that offers a detection time by a sensor.

8. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the sensor management unit communicates with the attachment unit in a URL format.

9. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the sensor management unit includes at least one of a remark sensor management unit, a positional information management unit, and a handwritten input sensor management unit, the remark sensor management unit managing a remark sensor for detecting a remark, the positional information management unit managing a position sensor for detecting positional information, the handwritten input sensor management unit managing a handwritten input sensor.

10. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata of strong assertion based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit when a drawing is created on a whiteboard with a pen.

11. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata of remark based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit, when a button for making remarks is pushed or a switch of a microphone is turned on and/or a participant says something.

12. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata of either decision or approval based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit, when a majority of participants show of hands.

13. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata of either decision and agree or decision and disagree based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit, when a participant pushes a button for a vote.

14. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit, according to electric power supply of a room light and/or a projector.

15. The moving image processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the attachment unit attaches the metadata judging a combination of sensor groups, based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit.

16. A moving image processing method comprising:

detecting with a sensor at least one of a person, an object, or a movement of the person or the object while a moving image is being captured, as sensor information; and

attaching a metadata to the moving image, after checking a combination of the sensor information based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor.

17. The moving image processing method according to claim 16, further comprising:

attaching the metadata to the moving image, referring to a memory that stores the metadata in which a meaning of the combination of the sensor information is reflected.

18. A storage medium readable by a computer to execute a process of outputting images from an output unit on a computer, the function of the storage medium comprising:

acquiring sensor information of a sensor that detects at least one of a person, an object, or a movement of the person or the object while a moving image is being captured; and

attaching metadata to the moving image, after checking a combination of the sensor information based on the sensor information.

19. The storage medium according to claim 18, the function further comprising:

attaching the metadata to the moving image, referring to the metadata in which a meaning of the combination of the sensor information is reflected.

20. A moving image processing unit comprising:

a sensor management unit that manages a sensor that detects at least one of a person, an object, a movement of the person or the object, and sound information as sensor information, while a moving image is being captured; and

an attachment unit that attaches metadata to the moving image based on the sensor information outputted from the sensor management unit.