Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 20110243453A1
• Filed: 02/10/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kashima, Koji, Eshima, Masashi, Sakaguchi, Tatsumi
• Granted Patent: US 8,548,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/195
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5854 using shape and object relationship
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/41 Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items segmenting video sequences G06V20/49
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an analysis section which analyzes, based on image information extracted from image data, a theme per image data group including a plurality of pieces of the image data, and a selection section which selects a combination of predetermined processing which is stored in association with the theme and the image data group based on the theme.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an analysis section which analyzes, based on image information extracted from image data, a theme per image data group including a plurality of pieces of the image data; and

a selection section which selects a combination of predetermined processing which is stored in association with the theme and the image data group based on the theme.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the analysis section calculates a feature amount based on a ratio of image data in which the image information has a predetermined feature out of pieces of image data included in an image data group.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the theme is shown in a feature amount space based on a plurality of feature axes each representing a predetermined evaluation criterion, and

wherein the selection section selects the combination based on a distance between a feature point of the image data group and a feature point of the theme associated with the predetermined processing.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a control section which acquires, from a plurality of image data groups, an image data group to be subjected to the predetermined processing, and which controls the analysis section to analyze a theme of the acquired image data group,

wherein the selection section selects, from among pieces of predetermined processing which are each stored in association with the theme, the predetermined processing based on the theme of the acquired image data group.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined processing is processing for creating a short movie from the image data group.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising

a control section which shows a position in the feature amount space of a feature, point of the theme associated with the predetermined processing and a position in the feature amount space of a feature point of the theme of the image data group, and which causes a screen for selecting the predetermined processing to be displayed.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image data group includes a plurality of pieces of image data which are brought together beforehand as a series of events based on a predetermined criterion.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an analysis section which analyzes, based on image information extracted from image data, a theme per image data group including a plurality of pieces of the image data; and

a selection section which selects the image data group based on a theme of a selected predetermined processing.

9. An information processing method, which is realized by causing arithmetic processing means of an information processing apparatus to execute predetermined processing, the predetermined processing comprising the steps of:

analyzing, based on image information extracted from image data, a theme per image data group including a plurality of pieces of the image data; and

selecting a combination of predetermined processing which is stored in association with the theme and the image data group based on the theme.

10. A program for causing a computer to function as

an analysis section which analyzes, based on image information extracted from image data, a theme per image data group including a plurality of pieces of the image data, and

a selection section which selects a combination of predetermined processing which is stored in association with the theme and the image data group based on the theme.