ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20100104146A1
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: MOMOSAKI, Kohei
• Granted Patent: US 8,121,349 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/173 face re-identification, e.g. recognising unknown faces across different face tracks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an image extraction module, a display control module, and a file processing module. The image extraction module extracts face images including a plurality of face images of persons in a video obtained by playing back a video data file from each of video data files. The display control module displays a selection screen which allows a user to select one or more video data files from the video data files, and displays the extracted face images on the selection screen to lay out the face images in correspondence with the video data files. The file processing module executes a process for the one or more video data files selected on the selection screen.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an image extraction module configured to extract at least one face image in a video by playing back video data files;

a display controller configured to display a selection screen configured to instruct a user to select at least one video data file from the video data files, and to display the at least one extracted face image on the selection screen by associating the at least one face image in correspondence with the at least one video data file; and

a file processor configured to execute a predetermined process for the selected video data files.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the video data files comprising the extracted face images further comprises time stamps within a predetermined period of video data files in a storage medium.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display controller is configured to display the face images on the selection screen for selection, and the display controller is configured to select at least one video data file comprising at least one face image when the at least one face image is selected, and

the file processor is configured to process the at least one video data file in an order of time stamps.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image extraction module is configured to classify the face images across the video data files, and to assign an identifier to face images classified as an identical person, and

the file processor is configured to detect an identifier assigned to the selected face image, and to process a video data file comprising the selected face image, and video data files comprising face images assigned the detected identifier in an order of time stamps of the video data files when the face image is selected.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the display controller is configured to display the face images assigned an identifier of the selected face image distinctly from face images not assigned the same identifier.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the image extraction module is configured to extract at least one video frame as a representative image for each of the at least one video data file comprising extracted face images, and

the display controller is configured to display the representative image corresponding to the video data file on the selection screen.

7. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a file extraction module configured to extract video data files comprising time stamps within a predetermined period as target video data files;

an image extraction module configured to extract at least one face image from the target video data files, and to assign an identifier to the at least one face image classified as an identical person;

a display controller configured to select one face image per identifier from the extracted face images, and to display an image list comprising the selected face images; and

a file processor configured to detect an identifier assigned to a face image when a user selects the face image from the image list, and to merge a video data file comprising the selected face image and video data files comprising face images assigned the same identifier as the detected identifier in an order of time stamps.

8. A video processing method comprising:

extracting at least one face image in a video by playing back video data files;

displaying a selection screen configured to instruct a user to select at least one video data file from the video data files;

displaying the at least one extracted face image on the selection screen by associating the at least one face image in correspondence with the at least one video data file; and

executing a predetermined process for the at least one selected video data file.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the video data files comprising the at least one face image further comprises time stamps within a predetermined period of video data files in a storage medium.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying the at least one face image on the selection screen for selection;

selecting at least one video data file comprising at least one face image when the at least one face image is selected, and

processing the at least one video data file is processed in an order of time stamps.