Imaging/reproducing device

• US 20090279842A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Liao, Baiping, Ueno, Ichiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,625,956 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3267 of motion picture signals, e.g. video clip
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

Position information of image pickup positions included in a designated moving image file is read out from position of point of change information, and map information covering all the positions of the position information is obtained from a map information database by a map information obtaining portion. A map is drawn by a map drawing portion based on the position information and the map information. The drawn map is overlapped with a moving image, which is replayed by a moving image replay portion, by an overlapping portion and displayed on a display portion.

Claims

1. A moving image replay device, characterized by comprising:

moving image replay means for replaying moving image data and outputting it to a replay/display screen;

position information obtaining means for obtaining position information accompanying with the moving image data;

map information obtaining means for obtaining map information that covers a plurality of positions included in the position information;

map drawing means for drawing a map on which the plurality of positions are marked based on the map information and the position information;

overlapping means for overlapping the replay/display screen with the map display screen on the same screen; and

display means for displaying the overlapped screen.

2. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized in that the moving image data is one moving image file.

3. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized in that the plurality of positions are positions for showing a change of the position information when an image is picked up.

4. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising map information holding means for holding map information in correspondence to the position information,

wherein the map information obtaining means obtains the map information that covers a plurality of positions included in the position information by searching the map information holding means.

5. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising place-name information obtaining means for obtaining place-name information corresponding to the position information,

wherein the map drawing means appends the place-names included in the place-name information to the marks corresponding to the plurality of positions.

6. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized in that the map drawing means applies a special effect to the marks corresponding to the moving image data being replayed by the moving image replay means among the marks of the plurality of positions.

7. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized in that the map drawing means shows an attribute as to the reliability of the position information to the marks of the plurality of positions.

8. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized in that the map drawing means time sequentially shows a picked-up order to the marks of the plurality of positions.

9. A moving image replay device according to claim 1, characterized by further comprising:

replay position information obtaining means for obtaining position information corresponding to a replay;

time of the moving image data replayed by the moving image replay means as replay position information;

previous replay position information holding means for holding position information before the replay time as previous replay position information; and

replay position information comparing means for comparing the replay position information with the previous replay position information and detecting disagreement therebetween,

wherein when the disagreement is detected, the map drawing means applies a special effect to the marks corresponding to the replay position information among the marks of the plurality of positions; and

when the disagreement is detected, the previous replay position information holding means holds the replay position information as new previous replay position information.

10. A moving image replay device according to claim 9, characterized by further comprising a display update timer for measuring an obtaining interval at which the replay position information is obtained,

wherein, each time the display update timer measures the obtaining interval, the replay position information obtaining means obtains the replay position information.

11. An image replay device, characterized by comprising:

moving image recording means for recording a picked-up image as moving image data;

image pickup position information obtaining means for obtaining the position information of an image pickup position as image pickup position information while the moving image data is being recorded;

previous image pickup position information holding means for holding the image pickup position information obtained by the image pickup position information obtaining means as previous image pickup position information;

point of change detecting means for comparing the image pickup position information with the previous image pickup position information and detecting a point of change showing that the position shown by the image pickup position information changes from the position shown by the previous image pickup position information;

position of point of change information recording means for recording, when the point of change is detected, the image pickup position information as position of point of change information;

moving image replay means for replaying the moving image data and outputting it onto a replay/display screen;

position information obtaining means for obtaining the position of point of change information accompanying with the moving image data;

map information obtaining means for obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position of point of change information;

map drawing means for drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions are marked, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position of point of change information;

overlapping means for overlapping the replay/display screen with the map display screen on the same screen; and

display means for displaying the overlapped screen,

wherein when the point of change is detected, the previous image pickup position holding means holds the image pickup position information as new previous image pickup position information.

12. A moving image replay method, characterized by comprising:

a step of obtaining position information accompanying with moving image data;

a step of obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position information;

a step of drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions are marked, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

a step of displaying a replay/display screen of the moving image data and the map display screen on the same screen by overlapping them with each other.

13. A program, characterized by causing a computer to carry out:

a step of obtaining position information accompanying with moving image data;

a step of obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position information;

a step of drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions are marked, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

a step of overlapping a replay/display screen of the moving image data with a map display screen on the same screen and displaying them.

14. A moving image replay device, characterized by comprising:

position information obtaining means for obtaining position information accompanying with moving image data;

map information obtaining means for obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position information;

typical image obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of typical images corresponding to the plurality of positions, respectively;

map drawing means for drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions and typical images corresponding to them are shown, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

display means for displaying the map display screen.

15. A moving image replay device according to claim 14, characterized in that the moving image data is one moving image file.

16. A moving image replay device according to claim 14, characterized in that the plurality of positions are positions for showing a change of position information when an image is picked up.

17. A moving image replay device according to claim 14, characterized by further comprising:

operation receiving means for receiving an operation instruction for selecting the plurality of typical images;

moving image replay means for replaying moving image data corresponding to a typical image, to which an operation instruction for selection is received by the operation receiving means, among the plurality of typical images and outputting the moving image data to a replay/display screen; and

overlapping means for overlapping the replay/display screen with the map display screen on the same screen,

wherein the display means displays the overlapped screens.

18. A moving image replay device according to claim 17, characterized in that the overlapping means overlaps the replay/display screen on the map display screen so that a position corresponding to the moving image data being replayed becomes the center of the replay/display screen.

19. A moving image replay device, characterized by comprising:

moving image recording means for recording a picked-up image as moving image data;

image pickup position information obtaining means for obtaining the position information of an image pickup position as image pickup position information while the moving image data is being recorded;

previous image pickup position information holding means for holding image pickup position information obtained by the image pickup position information obtaining means as previous image pickup position information;

point of change detecting means for comparing the image pickup position information with the previous image pickup position information and detecting a point of change showing that the position shown by the image pickup position information changes from the position shown by the previous image pickup position information;

position of point of change information recording means for recording, when a point of change is detected, the image pickup position information as position of point of change information;

typical image creating means for creating for creating, when a point of change is detected, a reduced image of a moving image being replayed as a typical image;

position information obtaining means for obtaining the position of point of change information;

map information obtaining means for obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position of point of change information;

typical image obtaining means for obtaining the typical images corresponding to the plurality of positions, respectively;

map drawing means for drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions and typical images corresponding to them are shown, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

display means for displaying the map display screen.

20. A moving image replay method, characterized by comprising:

a step of obtaining position information accompanying with moving image data;

a step of obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position information;

a step of obtaining a plurality of typical images corresponding to the plurality of positions, respectively;

a step of drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions and typical images corresponding to them are shown, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

a step of displaying the map display screen.

21. A program for causing a computer to carried out:

a step of obtaining position information accompanying with moving image data;

a step of obtaining map information covering a plurality of positions included in the position information;

a step of obtaining a plurality of typical images corresponding to the plurality of positions, respectively;

a step of drawing a map, on which the plurality of positions and typical images corresponding to them are shown, on a map display screen based on the map information and the position information; and

a step of displaying the map display screen.