INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100092107A1
• Filed: 09/11/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Daisuke, Okumura, Mitsuo, Gotoh, Tomohiko, Kimura, Takaomi, Nishizawa, Kazuto
• Granted Patent: US 8,891,909 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/309
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/06 in which sound track is associated with successively-shown still pictures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8211 the additional signal being a sound signal H04N9/835 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is provided that includes a playback unit to play back music data, an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data, an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types, a storage unit to store one or more than one image, a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types, a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit, and an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a playback unit to play back music data;

an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data;

an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types;

a storage unit to store one or more than one image;

a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types;

a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to perform image correction of an image stored in the storage unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit; and

an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a creation unit to create a display screen including the image corrected by the image correction unit and the relevant image and being output from the output unit.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the correction control unit changes details of image correction by the image correction unit with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit with a lapse of time.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a selection unit to select a target image of image correction by the image correction unit from one or more than one image stored in the storage unit according to a feature of the music data.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a selection unit to select a target image of image correction by the image correction unit from one or more than one image stored in the storage unit according to a feature of the relevant image.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a selection unit to select a target image of image correction by the image correction unit from one or more than one image stored in the storage unit according to additional information of the music data.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the analysis unit further analyzes a font of a character contained in the relevant image, and

the display screen further includes additional information of the relevant image represented by a font identical or similar to the font analyzed by the analysis unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the display screen further includes additional information of the relevant image represented by a font corresponding to a feature of the music data.

9. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

a playback unit to play back music data;

an analysis unit to analyze a feature of a relevant image of the music data;

an image correction unit to perform image correction with use of any of a plurality of correction types;

a selection unit to select a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image analyzed by the analysis unit from the plurality of correction types;

a correction control unit to cause the image correction unit to correct one or more than one image stored in a storage medium with use of the correction type selected by the selection unit; and

an output unit to output the image corrected by the image correction unit.

10. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

playing back music data;

analyzing a feature of a relevant image of the music data;

selecting a correction type corresponding to the feature of the relevant image from a plurality of correction types;

correcting one or more than one image stored in a storage medium with use of the selected correction type; and

outputting the corrected image.