VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OBJECT PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20070040901A1
• Filed: 08/07/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Taeko
• Application Number:
  US11/462,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20070040901A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3242 of processing required or performed, e.g. for reproduction or before recording H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3254 Orientation, e.g. landscape or portrait; Location or order of the image data, e.g. in memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

Photographs a predetermined action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, and records it as video data. When a desired object is specified while the video data is being played back, the object is identified based on information on a position of the object in the appliance and a time the object acted, and operation authority of a user against the identified object is determined. Predetermined operation is enabled to be executed against the predetermined object according to the result of the determination.

Claims

1. A video processing apparatus for photographing an action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, recording it as video data, and playing back the video data, comprising:

identifying means for identifying said object specified;

determining means for determining operation authority of a user against said identified object; and

operating means for enabling predetermined operation to be executed against said identified object according to the result of said determination.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined operation includes operation on information corresponding to a master copy of said object.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said determining means determines operation authority of said user based on a previously created object authority template.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said object authority template defines operation authority against an object based on user information or information for said each object.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said object authority template defines a rule for setting operation authority against an object based on user information or information for said each object.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for designating to explicitly set object authority while said video data is being played back.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein operation authority against said object is set and a new user who can operate is created against said object.

8. An object processing method of a video processing apparatus which photographs an action performed to an object with an appliance by a photographing device, recording it as video data, and playing back the video data, comprising:

an identifying step of identifying said object specified;

a determining step of determining operation authority of a user against said identified object; and

an operating step of enabling predetermined operation to be executed against said identified object according to the result of said determination.

9. A computer program stored in a computer-readable recording medium for causing a computer to execute the object processing method described in claim 8.

10. A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute the object processing method described in claim 8.