INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20110080941A1
• Filed: 09/24/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: OGIKUBO, Junichi, Ichinaka, Yasuhiro, Ohwada, Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US12/890,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20110080941A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.01
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• 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

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: on the basis of management information of a transcoding system of transcoding processing transcoding a format of a clip, an image generation mechanism generating a family tree being an image representing the clip by a node and representing a relationship between the clips on the transcoding processing by a link; and a display control mechanism displaying the family tree generated by the image generation mechanism on a display screen.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

on the basis of management information of a transcoding system of transcoding processing transcoding a format of a clip, an image generation means for generating a family tree being an image representing the clip by a node and representing a relationship between the clips on the transcoding processing by a link; and

a display control means for displaying the family tree generated by the image generation means on a display screen.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having a tree structure, representing the node by a predetermined figure, representing the link by a line or an arrow, and representing a generation of the transcoding of the clip by a position of the node in a right-and-left direction, and

the display control means displays the family tree having the tree structure, generated by the image generation means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having the tree structure such that whether there is a file of each clip or not is indicated by a method of displaying the node.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having the tree structure such that an image size of each clip is indicated by a size of the node.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image generation means generates the tree-structured family tree such that a bit rate or a frame rate of each clip is indicated by color or a density of the node.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image generation means copies a configuration of the family tree having the tree structure under a desired clip to another clip in accordance with predetermined operation input by a user.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having a genealogical structure, representing the node by a predetermined figure, representing the link by a line or an arrow, and representing a generation of the transcoding of the clip by a position of the node in an up-and-down direction;

and

the display control means displays the family tree having the genealogical structure, generated by the image generation means.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having the genealogical structure such that whether there is a file of each clip or not is indicated by a method of displaying the node.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having the genealogical structure such that an image size of each clip is indicated by a size of the node.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the image generation means generates the family tree having the genealogical structure such that a bit rate or a frame rate of each clip is indicated by color or density of the node.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the image generation means copies the family tree having the genealogical structure under a desired clip to another clip in accordance with predetermined operation input by a user.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image generation means generates the graphical family tree representing the node by a predetermined figure, representing the link by a line or an arrow, and representing a feature of the clip by a position of the node on the graph;

and

the display control means displays the graphical family tree generated by the image generation means.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the image generation means assigns different parameters with each other to individual axes of the graph.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the graph is a two-dimensional graph.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the graph is a three-dimensional graph.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an instruction accepting means for accepting a user'"'"'s instruction input on the basis of the family tree displayed on the display screen.

17. A method of processing information, comprising the steps of:

on the basis of management information of a transcoding system of transcoding processing transcoding a format of a clip, generating a family tree being an image representing the clip by a node and representing a relationship between the clips on the transcoding processing by a link; and

displaying the generated family tree on a display screen.

18. An information processing apparatus comprising:

on the basis of management information of a transcoding system of transcoding processing transcoding a format of a clip, an image generation section generating a family tree being an image representing the clip by a node and representing a relationship between the clips on the transcoding processing by a link; and

a display control section displaying the family tree generated by the image generation means on a display screen.