IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20100321406A1
• Filed: 06/03/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Saitou, Yuji, Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Furue, Nobuki, Iriya, Shinichi, IWASE, Ayako
• Granted Patent: US 8,786,630 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/638
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7335 Graphical querying, e.g. query-by-region, query-by-sketch, query-by-trajectory, GUIs for designating a person/face/object as a query predicate end-user interface involving hot spots associated with the video H04N21/4725; end-user interface for selecting a Region of Interest H04N21/4728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means
• 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 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• 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
• 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

Abstract

There is provided an image processing device including a map screen generation portion that, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up, generates a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn, a display control portion that causes a display portion to display the map screen, and a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using an operating body, wherein the position detecting portion detects a point on the trajectory line specified by the operating body, and, based on the image pickup position information, the display control portion causes a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point to be displayed on the map screen.

Claims

1. An image processing device comprising:

a map screen generation portion that, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up by a moving imaging device, generates a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn;

a display control portion that causes a display portion to display the map screen; and

a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using an operating body,

wherein the position detecting portion detects a point on the trajectory line specified by the operating body, and

wherein, based on the image pickup position information, the display control portion causes a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point to be displayed on the map screen.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the trajectory line displayed on the display screen is traced by the operating body, the position detecting portion sequentially detects a plurality of points on the trajectory line traced by the operating body, and

wherein, based on the image pickup position information, the display control portion causes a plurality of thumbnail images picked up at a plurality of image pickup positions that respectively correspond to the detected plurality of points to be sequentially displayed on the map screen.

3. The image processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the display control portion changes, in accordance with a scale of the map, an interval between the points at which the thumbnail images are displayed when the trajectory line is traced.

4. The image processing device according to claim 3,

wherein, when the position detecting portion detects a predetermined operation performed on the map screen by the operating body, the display control portion changes the scale of the map in accordance with the predetermined operation.

5. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the map screen further includes at least one function icon representing a predetermined function that can be performed on the moving image,

wherein the image processing device further comprises a function control portion that performs the predetermined function on the moving image,

wherein the position detecting portion detects a section of the trajectory line specified by a predetermined operation performed on the map screen by the operating body, and the function icon specified by the operating body, and

wherein, based on the image pickup position information, the function control portion performs the predetermined function corresponding to the specified function icon, on a section of the moving images corresponding to the specified section of the trajectory line.

6. The image processing device according to claim 5,

wherein the predetermined function includes at least one of

a function that deletes at least some section of the moving images,

a function that attributes an evaluation value to at least some section of the moving images,

a function that plays back at least some section of the moving images, and

a function that creates a playlist using at least some section of the moving images.

7. The image processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the position detecting portion detects a position in which the operating body touches or approaches the display screen of the display portion.

8. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

generating, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up by a moving imaging device, a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn;

displaying the map screen on a display portion;

detecting a point on the trajectory line specified by an operating body, the detecting being performed by a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using the operating body; and

displaying on the map screen a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point, based on the image pickup position information.

9. A program comprising instructions that command a computer to perform the steps of:

generating, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up by a moving imaging device, a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn;

displaying the map screen on a display portion;

detecting a point on the trajectory line specified by an operating body, the detecting being performed by a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using the operating body; and

displaying on the map screen a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point, based on the image pickup position information.