Image-Information Recording Device and Image-Information Display Device

• US 20070263102A1
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Date, Osamu, Jinno, Hiroshi, Hirabayashi, Mitsuhiro, Kawate, Fumitaka
• Application Number:
  US10/574,942
• Publication Number:
  US 20070263102A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.200
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/12 Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers within interface between computers and data recorders G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2537 Optical discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• 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 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

Image information regarding image data recorded on a storage medium is efficiently recorded, regardless of a storage medium type. Thumbnail files 600 to 609 hold thumbnail slots 620 to 629, respectively. Each of the thumbnail slots 620 to 629 holds, as a thumbnail, a representative image of corresponding image data. Text files 700 to 709 hold text slots 720 to 729, respectively. Each of the text slots 720 to 729 holds text information regarding corresponding image data. An attribute file 509 holds an attribute file header 519 and an attribute slot 529. The thumbnail slots 620 to 629 and the text files 700 to 709 are referred to from the attribute slot 529.

Claims

1. An image-information recording device, comprising:

image-information obtaining means for obtaining, from predetermined image data, image information regarding the image data; and

image-information recoding means for recording, as image information data, the obtained image information onto a storage medium,

wherein the image information data is recorded on the storage medium in a distributed manner.

2. An image-information recording device, comprising:

image-information obtaining means for obtaining, from predetermined image data, image information regarding the image data; and

image-information recoding means for recording, as an image-information file group, the obtained image information onto a storage medium,

wherein the image-information file group includes multiple representative image files that hold predetermined representative images of the image data, and the multiple representative image files are recorded on the storage medium in a distributed manner.

3. The image-information recording device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an image information memory for holding image information; and

image-information storing means for storing the obtained image information in the image information memory,

wherein the image-information recording means records the image information, stored in the image information memory, in the image-information file group on the storage medium.

4. The image-information recording device according to claim 2, further comprising:

medium-type determining means for determining a type of the storage medium,

wherein the image-information recording means switches between recording systems for the storage medium, in accordance with a result of the determination performed by the medium-type determining means.

5. The image-information recording device according to claim 4, wherein the medium-type determining means determines a reflectance of the storage medium;

and

when the reflectance of the storage medium is higher than a predetermined value, the image-information recording means records a new image-information file group without overwriting the image-information file group recorded in the storage medium.

6. The image-information recording device according to claim 2, wherein the representative images in the multiple representative image files are each identified with a representative-image identifier that is unique in all the multiple representative image files.

7. The image-information recording device according to claim 2, wherein the representative images in the multiple representative image files are each identified with a file identifier for identifying one of the multiple representative image files and a representative-image identifier for identifying each representative image in the representative image file identified with the file identifier.

8. An image-information display device, comprising:

attribute obtaining means for obtaining attributes of image information regarding predetermined image data from image information data in which the image information is , recorded on a storage medium in a distributed manner;

condition inputting means for prompting input of a search condition regarding an attribute of the image information and receiving the input;

condition searching means for searching the attributes of the image information in accordance with the input search condition;

representative-image obtaining means for obtaining representative images of the image data from the image information data in accordance with a result of the searching performed by the condition searching means; and

displaying means for displaying a list of the obtained representative images.

9. An image-information display device comprising:

attribute obtaining means for obtaining attributes of image information regarding predetermined image data from an image-information file group in which the image information is recorded on a storage medium in a distributed manner;

condition inputting means for prompting input of a search condition regarding an attribute of the image information and receiving the input;

condition searching means for searching the attributes of the image information in accordance with the input search condition;

representative-image obtaining means for obtaining representative images of the image data from the image-information file group in accordance with a result of the searching performed by the condition searching means; and

displaying means for displaying a list of the obtained representative images.

10. The image information display device according to claim 9, further comprising:

an image information memory for holding image information,

wherein the attribute obtaining means holds the obtained attributes in the image information memory;

the condition searching means searches the attributes held in the image information memory in accordance with the input search condition;

the representative-image obtaining means holds the obtained representative images in the image information memory; and

the displaying means displays a list of the representative images held in the image information memory.

11. The image-information display device according to claim 9, further comprising:

link-information extracting means for extracting link information indicating relationships between the representative images and the image data from the image-information file group;

image selecting means for receiving an input of a selected representative image of the displayed representative image list; and

image reproducing means for identifying the image data associated with the selected representative image based on the link information and reproducing the image data.

12. An image-information recording method for an image-information recording device including an image information memory for holding image information for image data and means for recording, as an image-information file group, the image information onto a storage medium, wherein the image-information file group includes multiple representative image files that hold predetermined representative images of the image data, the image-information recording method comprising:

a step of obtaining, from predetermined image data, image information regarding the image data;

a step of storing the obtained image information in the image information memory; and

a step of recording, as the multiple representative image files, the representative images in the image information stored in the image information memory onto the storage medium in a distributed manner.

13. An image-information displaying method for an image-information display device including an image information memory for holding image information, the displaying method comprising:

a step of obtaining attributes of image information regarding predetermined image data from an image-information file group in which the image information is recorded on a storage medium in a distributed manner and of holding the attributes in the image information memory;

a step of prompting input of a search condition regarding an attribute of the image information and receiving the input;

a step of searching the attributes held in the image information memory in accordance with the input search condition;

a step of obtaining representative images of the image data from the image-information file group in accordance with a result of the searching and of holding the representative images in the image information memory; and

a step of displaying a list of the representative images held in the image information memory.

14. A program for an image-information recording device including an image information memory for holding image information and means for recording, as an image-information file group, the image information onto a storage medium, wherein the image-information file group includes multiple representative image files that hold predetermined representative images of the image data, the program causing a computer to execute:

a step of obtaining, from predetermined image data, image information regarding the image data;

a step of storing the obtained image information in the image information memory; and

a step of recording, as the multiple representative image files, the representative images in the image information stored in the image information memory onto the storage medium in a distributed manner.

15. A program for an image-information display device including an image information memory for holding image information, the program causing a computer to execute:

a step of obtaining attributes of image information regarding predetermined image data from an image-information file group in which the image information is recorded on a storage medium in a distributed manner and of holding the attributes in the image information memory;

a step of prompting input of a search condition regarding an attribute of the image information and receiving the input;

a step of searching the attributes held in the image information memory in accordance with the input search condition;

a step of obtaining representative images of the image data from the image-information file group in accordance with a result of the searching and of holding the representative images in the image information memory; and

a step of displaying a list of the representative images held in the image information memory.