Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 20080235584A1
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Published: 09/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Masham, Keiko
• Application Number:
  US11/983,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20080235584A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: selection means for managing a plurality of themes each associating a song with effects for a moving picture content, said selection means further selecting one of a plurality of folders each holding a plurality of still-frame pictures while concurrently selecting one of said themes at least at one of a plurality of timings established per day; creation means for creating a moving picture content to be displayed consecutively as the still-frame pictures from the folder selected by said selection means and accompanied by the effects and the song associated with the theme also selected by said selection means; recording means for recording said moving picture content created by said creation means along with other moving picture contents; and display control means for displaying information including an icon indicating that said moving picture content is created automatically.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

selection means for managing a plurality of themes each associating a song with effects for a moving picture content, said selection means further selecting one of a plurality of folders each holding a plurality of still-frame pictures while concurrently selecting one of said themes at least at one of a plurality of timings established per day;

creation means for creating a moving picture content to be displayed consecutively as the still-frame pictures from the folder selected by said selection means and accompanied by the effects and the song associated with the theme also selected by said selection means, the selected song serving as background music to be played during the display;

recording means for recording said moving picture content created by said creation means along with other moving picture contents; and

display control means for displaying information including an icon indicating that said moving picture content is created automatically, said icon being part of the information in list form about the moving picture contents created by said creation means and recorded by said recording means.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, with said information processing apparatus placed in a standby state, said selection means selects one of said plurality of themes and one of said plurality of folders at one of said plurality of timings.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, if said recording means is set to record a predetermined number of the moving picture contents created by said creation means up to the preceding day, then said recording means overwrites the oldest of the recorded moving picture contents with said moving picture content created anew by said creation means.

4. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

managing a plurality of themes each associating a song with effects for a moving picture content, said managing step further selecting one of a plurality of folders each holding a plurality of still-frame pictures while concurrently selecting one of said themes at least at one of a plurality of timings established per day;

creating a moving picture content to be displayed consecutively as the still-frame pictures from the selected folder and accompanied by the effects and the song associated with the selected theme, the selected song serving as background music to be played during the display;

recording said moving picture content created in said creating step along with other moving picture contents; and

displaying information including an icon indicating that said moving picture content is created automatically, said icon being part of the information in list form about the moving picture contents created in said creating step and recorded in said recording step.

5. A program for causing a computer to execute a procedure comprising the steps of:

managing a plurality of themes each associating a song with effects for a moving picture content, said managing step further selecting one of a plurality of folders each holding a plurality of still-frame pictures while concurrently selecting one of said themes at least at one of a plurality of timings established per day;

creating a moving picture content to be displayed consecutively as the still-frame pictures from the selected folder and accompanied by the effects and the song associated with the selected theme, the selected song serving as background music to be played during the display;

recording said moving picture content created in said creating step along with other moving picture contents; and

displaying information including an icon indicating that said moving picture content is created automatically, said icon being part of the information in list form about the moving picture contents created in said creating step and recorded in said recording step.

6. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a selection section configured to manage a plurality of themes each associating a song with effects for a moving picture content, said selection section further selecting one of a plurality of folders each holding a plurality of still-frame pictures while concurrently selecting one of said themes at least at one of a plurality of timings established per day;

a creation section configured to create a moving picture content to be displayed consecutively as the still-frame pictures from the folder selected by said selection section and accompanied by the effects and the song associated with the theme also selected by said selection section, the selected song serving as background music to be played during the display;

a recording section configured to record said moving picture content created by said creation section along with other moving picture contents; and

a display control section configured to display information including an icon indicating that said moving picture content is created automatically, said icon being part of the information in list form about the moving picture contents created by said creation section and recorded by said recording section.