VIDEO REPRODUCING DEVICE, VIDEO RECORDER, VIDEO REPRODUCING METHOD, VIDEO RECORDING METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

• US 20090128646A1
• Filed: 10/06/2006
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Itoh, Masanori
• Granted Patent: US 8,018,521 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/220.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding
• 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

When displaying an image taken as portrait-oriented image in a landscape-oriented display area, a cutout image including a partial area of the portrait-oriented image to be displayed is displayed. At that time, a whole image of the port-oriented image which is rotated based on rotation information thereof may be displayed along with the cutout image.

Claims

1. An image reproducing apparatus for reproducing image information from a recording medium which stores image information and rotation information that shows whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented, the image reproducing apparatus comprising:

a reading section that reads image information from the recording medium;

a rotation information reading section that reads rotation information of the image information from the recording medium; and

a decoder that generates an image signal based on the read image information and the read rotation information,

wherein the decoder generates the image signal such that a cutout image including a part of an image represented by the read image information is displayed, when the rotation information shows that the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented.

2. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the decoder generates the image signal such that a whole image including whole of the image represented by the read image information is displayed concurrently with the cutout image when the rotation information shows that the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented.

3. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the decoder generates the image signal such that a whole image including whole of the image represented by the read image information is displayed with time lag with the cutout image when the rotation information shows that the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented.

4. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the recording medium stores information regarding a cutout area of the image information, and

the decoder reads the information regarding the cutout area from the recording medium, and sets a area of the cutout image in accordance with the information.

5. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the cutout area includes at least one of an area with skin color, an area including a face, and an area in which a person appears, which are included in the image information.

6. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

an operational unit on which movement information for the area of the cutout image is inputted with a user operation;

a display area moving section that controls movement of the area of the cutout image in accordance with the movement information on the operational unit; and

a recording section that stores, in the recording medium, information regarding the area of the cutout image determined by a user operation.

7. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image information has an aspect ratio of 16:

9.

8. An image recording apparatus, comprising:

an input section that inputs image information;

a rotation information detecting section that detects rotation information showing whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented;

an area setting section that sets a cutout area which is a part of an area represented by the image information and an area to be displayed at the time of reproduction when the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented; and

a recording section that records the image information, the rotation information, and information regarding the cutout area to a recording medium, with those pieces of information being correlated.

9. An image reproducing method of reproducing image information from a recording medium storing the image information and rotation information that shows whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented, the image reproducing method comprising:

reading image information from the recording medium;

reading rotation information of the image information from the recording medium; and

generating an image signal based on the read image information and rotation information,

wherein in the generating the image signal, the image signal is generated such that a cutout image including a part of an image represented by the read image information is displayed, when the rotation information shows that an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented.

13. A program for making a computer execute the image reproducing method according to claim 9.

10. An image recording method comprising:

inputting image information;

detecting rotation information that shows whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented;

setting a cutout area that is a partial area of the image information and is to be displayed at the time of reproduction when the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented; and

recording the image information, the rotation information and information regarding the cutout area to a recording medium, with those pieces of information being correlated.

14. A program for making the computer execute the image recording method according to claim 10.

11. A semiconductor integrated circuit for reproducing image information from a recording medium storing the image information and rotation information that shows whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented, the semiconductor integrated circuit comprising:

a section for reading image information from the recording medium;

a section for reading rotation information of the image information from the recording medium; and

a decoder for generating an image signal based on the read image information and rotation information,

wherein the decoder generates the image signal such that a cutout image including a part of an image represented by the read image information is displayed, when the rotation information shows that an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented.

12. A semiconductor integrated circuit for recording an image signal comprising:

a section for inputting image information;

a rotation information detecting section for detecting rotation information that shows whether an image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented;

an area setting section for setting a cutout area that is a partial area of the image information and is to be displayed at the time of reproduction when the image represented by the image information is portrait-oriented; and

a recording section for recording the image information, the rotation information and information regarding the cutout area to a recording medium, with those pieces of information being correlated.