IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF

• US 20110085778A1
• Filed: 06/29/2010
• Published: 04/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nunomaki, Takashi, Saitou, Yuji, Ozawa, Hiroyuki, Furue, Nobuki, Iwase, Ayako, Iriya, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,724,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters

Abstract

An imaging device includes a display unit for displaying a video image being captured, an index operating unit for inputting an instruction for an index, and an index setting unit for setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured for a predetermined time period including a time point of a user'"'"'s operation of inputting the instruction for the index, in response to one user'"'"'s operation on the index operating unit while the video image is captured.

Claims

1. An imaging device comprising:

a display unit for displaying a video image being captured;

an index operating unit for inputting an instruction for an index; and

an index setting unit for setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured for a predetermined time period including a time point of a user'"'"'s operation of inputting the instruction for the index, in response to one user'"'"'s operation on the index operating unit while the video image is captured.

2. The imaging device according to claim 1,

wherein the index operating unit includes a position detecting unit for detecting a position in a display screen of the display unit, which an operating body touched or approached;

and

wherein the user'"'"'s operation includes allowing the operating body to touch or approach the display screen.

3. The imaging device according to claim 2, further comprising:

an object recognition unit for recognizing an object which appears in the video image,

wherein the position detecting unit detects a position on the display screen, which was designated by the operating body while the video image was being captured,

wherein the object recognition unit recognizes the object which appears in the position on the display screen, which was designated by the operating body, and

wherein the index setting unit sets as the index section, the section in the video image, in which the object recognized by the object recognition unit appears.

4. The imaging device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a deletion unit for deleting a section in the video image which is captured before the index section, when the section in the video image in which the object appears is set as the index section while the video image is captured.

5. The imaging device according to claim 2,

wherein the position detecting unit detects a sliding method on the display screen by the operating body when the operating body slides on the display screen while the video image is captured, and

wherein the index setting unit sets the index section in accordance with the sliding method.

6. The imaging device according to claim 5,

wherein the position detecting unit detects the sliding direction of the operating body, and

wherein the index setting unit sets the index section in accordance with the sliding direction while using the time point at which the operating body slides on the display screen as a reference.

7. The imaging device according to claim 5,

wherein the position detecting unit detects the sliding length of the operating body, and

wherein the index setting unit sets the index section which employs as the start point, the time point preceding the time point at which the operating body slides on the display screen by the time decided in accordance with the sliding length.

8. The imaging device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a recording unit for associating index information representing the index section with the video image and recording the associated index information in a recording medium; and

a display control unit for causing the display unit to display a record confirmation screen of the video image immediately after the instruction for the completion of the recording of the video image, making a correspondence relationship between a display object representing the index section and a time axis representing the recording time of the video image based on the index information, and displaying the display object on the record confirmation screen,

wherein the position detecting unit detects a user'"'"'s operation on the display object representing the index section displayed on the record confirmation screen, and

wherein the index setting unit adjusts the index section in response to the user'"'"'s operation.

9. The imaging device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a deletion unit for deleting the sections other than the index section in the video image in response to the user'"'"'s operation on an icon displayed on the record confirmation screen.

10. The imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display control unit for making a correspondence relationship between the display object representing the index section and the time axis representing the recording time of the video image and displaying the display object on a live-view screen displayed on the display unit while the video image is captured.

11. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a video image being captured on a display unit while capturing the video image; and

setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured in a predetermined time period including the time point of a user'"'"'s operation of inputting an instruction for an index, in response to one user'"'"'s operation on an index operating unit for inputting the instruction for the index while the video image is captured.

12. A program for causing a computer to execute the steps of:

displaying a video image being captured on a display unit while capturing the video image; and

setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured in a predetermined time period including the time point of a user'"'"'s operation of inputting an instruction for an index, in response to one user'"'"'s operation on an index operating unit for inputting the instruction for the index while the video image is captured.