ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20110033113A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: SAKAGUCHI, Tomonori, MOMOSAKI, Kohei
• Application Number:
  US12/851,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20110033113A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/190
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an indexing module, a frame image extraction module, and a display controller. The indexing module is configured to create index information for moving image data. The frame image extraction module is configured to extract an image of a frame satisfying a predetermined extraction condition from the moving image data based on the index information. The display controller is configured to display the extracted image based on a predetermined display condition.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an indexing module configured to create index information for video data;

a frame image extraction module configured to extract an image of a frame satisfying a predetermined extraction condition from the video data based on the index information; and

a display controller configured to cause the display of the extracted image based on a predetermined display condition.

2. The apparatus of claim 1,

further comprising a user interface module configured to display face images in the video data for selecting a classification based on the index information in such a manner that a face image is displayed for a classification, the index information comprising time stamp information indicative of a position in the video data of a frame comprising a face image of a person and class information on a face image,

wherein the frame image extraction module is configured to extract the image of the frame comprising a face image belonging to the selected classification.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the user interface module is further configured to cause the display of thumbnail images for each of at least one frame selected from each video, to allow one of the thumbnail images to be selected and to cause the display of face images extracted from the videos and associated with a class associated with the selected image

wherein the user interface module is configured to display thumbnail images for one frame selected from each video data, and to display face images belonging to the classification appearing in the video data corresponding to a thumbnail image selected from the displayed thumbnail images.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the user interface module allows one or more images to be selected;

the display condition comprises a number of images to be displayed; and

the frame image extraction module is configured to extract images of frames based on the selected number of face images and the number of images to be displayed.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a user interface module configured to display a setting screen for specifying a number of images to be displayed on one screen, wherein the display controller is configured to display extracted images in sets of one or more screens, such that the number of images displayed on one screen is equal to the specified number of images.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the display controller is configured to control a display interval between screens based on the specified number of images to be displayed on one screen and a predefined total display time.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the display condition comprises audio data for a background music, the audio data associated with a time; and

the display controller is further configured to control a display interval based on the time.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a user interface module configured to display a setting screen for specifying whether to display the extracted images in a time sequential order or in a random order,

wherein the display controller is configured to cause the display of the extracted images in the specified display order.

9. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the index information comprises Depe level information associated with face images; and

the frame image extraction module is configured to preferentially extract the image of a frame comprising a face image associated with a high front level from the moving image data.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein front level information comprises information corresponding to a measure of how much of the face in image is facing forward.

11. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the index information comprises size information associated with face images; and

the frame image extraction module is configured to preferentially extract the image of a frame comprising a large-sized face image.

12. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the index information comprises size information associated with face images; and

the frame image extraction module is configured to preferentially extract the image of a frame comprising a face image associated with a large size over one comprising a face image associated with a smaller size.

13. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a face list display module configured to display face images of persons, the face images extracted from frames of moving image data;

a thumbnail display module configured to display a thumbnail image corresponding to a frame comprising a face image selected from the face images displayed by the face list display module;

an instruction module configured to instruct that an image of a frame corresponding to the thumbnail image displayed by the thumbnail display module be adopted as a display target;

an adopted list display module configured to display thumbnail images adopted by the instruction module;

a frame image extraction module configured to extract images of frames corresponding to the thumbnail images displayed by the adopted list display module from the moving image data; and

a display controller configured to cause the display the extracted images based on a predetermined display condition.

14. An image data display method of an electronic apparatus comprising a storage medium in which moving image data is recorded, the method comprising:

accessing moving image data stored on a computer readable medium;

creating index information for the moving image data;

extracting an image of a frame satisfying a predetermined extraction condition from the moving image data based on the created index information; and

displaying the extracted image based on a predetermined display condition.