Method for displaying an icon of media data

• US 6,169,547 B1
• Filed: 11/19/1997
• Issued: 01/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Tomita, Hiroshi, Tanaka, Tetsuo, Kohno, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): HOMERE, JEAN RAYMOND
• Application Number:
  US08/974,226
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/4, 707/102, 707/526, 345/348, 345/342, 345/127
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

An information processing system for creating a search data for an application-specific data is proposed. An application processing section inputs or edits data on the basis of an application program. An application-specific data storage section stores the application-specific data input or edited by the application processing section. A search data is created by a search data creating section for searching the application-specific data stored in the application-specific data storage section for a specific data. The search data creating section also creates a correspondence between the search data and the application-specific data. A search data storage section stores the search data created by the search data creating section. A correspondence storage section stores the correspondence between the search data and the application-specific data. Further, a data output section connected to and shared by a plurality of data input or editing units including the application processing section and the search data creating section. The search data creating section creates the search data from the application-specific data sent from the application processing section to the data output section.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an icon of media-data by using a processing unit, comprising the steps of:

a) selecting an editing method according to kind of said media-data;

b) generating image-data by operating on at least part of the contents of said media-data by using said selected editing method; and

c) displaying an icon on the basis of said image-data.

2. A method for generating an icon of media-data by using a processing unit, comprising the steps of:

a) selecting a generating method of said icon according to a data format of said media-data;

b) generating image data by operating on at least part of the contents of said media-data, if said media-data has an image format;

c) generating image data by changing to an image format data from a data format for outputting onto an output device an execution result of an application program corresponding to said media-data, if said media-data has a different format from image format; and

d) generating an icon on the basis of said image data generated in said step b) or c).

3. A method for displaying an icon of a window as an execution result of an application program by using a processing unit, comprising the steps of:

a) detecting a designation inputted from an input device for changing said window displayed at execution of said application program to an icon;

b) generating an icon by scaling down at least one of part of bit-map data corresponding to contents displayed on said window; and

c) displaying said icon.