Information processing device and method, photographing device, and program

• US 20060291840A1
• Filed: 06/01/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro, Kurata, Masatomo, Clarkson, Brian, Murata, Makoto
• Granted Patent: US 7,917,020 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• 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 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing device including an associating section for recognizing action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as photographing timing of an image string on a basis of the sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of the image string with the image string.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

associating means for recognizing action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as photographing timing of an image string on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

reproduction controlling means for reproducing a scene of the entire said image string, said scene being associated with an action selected by a user from among a plurality of actions recognizable by said associating means.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

display controlling means for displaying distributions of scenes associated with respective actions by action type.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein said associating means extracts features from said sensor data, and recognizes the action of the person having the device including the sensor on a basis of a time series of the extracted features using a model for recognition provided in advance.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein said sensor is included in one of the information processing device itself and a device having a casing different from a casing of the information processing device.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

communicating means for, when said sensor is included in the device having the casing different from the casing of the information processing device, performing radio communication with the device, and obtaining said sensor data.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

image processing means for clustering images forming said image string according to contents of the images; and

action correcting means for associating one of actions associated by said associating means with images whose contents are determined to be similar to each other with one entire scene formed by the images whose-contents are determined to be similar to each other on a basis of a result of processing by said image processing means.

8. An information processing method comprising the step of:

recognizing action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as photographing timing of an image string on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.

9. A program for making a computer perform a process comprising the step of:

recognizing action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as photographing timing of an image string on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.

10. A photographing device comprising:

photographing means; and

associating means for recognizing action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as timing of photographing of an image string by salad photographing means on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.

11. An information processing device comprising:

an associating section configured to recognize action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as photographing timing of an image string on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.

12. A photographing device comprising:

a photographing section; and

an associating section configured to recognize action of a person having a device including a sensor that outputs sensor data obtained in same timing as timing of photographing of an image string by said photographing section on a basis of said sensor data, and associating information indicating the recognized action as information to be used for selection of a reproduction position at a time of reproduction of said image string with said image string.