System, method and program for handling temporally related presentation data

• US 7,103,842 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Issued: 09/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takatsu, Takuhiko, Masuda, Hiroki, Bando, Hiroyuki, Takeyari, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayerl, Raymond J.
• Application Number:
  US09/947,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20020085022A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,825 Days
• Field of Search: 345/731, 345/730, 345/732, 345/727, 345/728, 345/716, 345/717, 345/726, 345/978, 345/700, 715/500.1, 715/500, 715/530, 715/531, 715/700, 715/512, 704/231, 704/270, 704/278, 704/251
• US Class Current: 715/731
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

Realizing a presentation system which can present picture data and voice data in a simplified manner after shooting and picking up pictures by a digital still camera, etc. and recording voices by a voice recorder, etc. Firstly, when the presentation system executes the program, a folder will be selected to specify a recording area in the personal computer 10 (step 1). After obtaining temporal information of all picture data and voice data in the folder, the presentation system performs relating operation for pages of slides so that the picture data and the voice data correspond to the slides at the time of data presentation (step 2). Next, the presentation system makes the user select whether information processing for data will be performed or not (step 3). If the user intends to perform the information processing for data, the flow advances to step 4, in which the user can perform the information processing for data such as voice recognition, text inputting, or selecting static pictures from moving pictures, if necessary, for each of the related slide data in the presentation system.

Claims

1. A presentation system to automatically generate presentation data based on temporal information comprising:

means for temporally relating picture data and voice data to each other as slides for presentation,

wherein said means for temporally relating picture data and voice data relates said picture data to said voice data by comparing a shooting time of said picture data with recording times of said voice data and selecting voice data with a recording time that is closest to said shooting time; and

means for displaying the automatically generated presentation data so that appropriate information regarding and included in the related picture data and voice data is displayed when the picture data is selected for processing,

wherein said processing includes voice recognition, text inputting, or selecting static pictures from moving pictures, for each of the related slide data in the presentation system; and

wherein after completion of the information processing for data in the presentation system, the presentation data is completed, and data presentation is initiated.

2. The presentation system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said appropriate information included in the voice data includes text data converted from voice data describing the picture data.

3. A method for automatically generating presentation data based on temporal information comprising the steps of:

selecting picture data and temporally relating the picture data to voice data,

wherein said temporally relating picture data to voice data includes comparing a shooting time of said picture data with recording times of said voice data and selecting voice data with a recording time that is closest to said shooting time;

processing the temporally related picture data and voice data to generate slides for presentation; and

displaying the presentation so that appropriate information regarding and included in the related picture data and voice data is displayed when the picture data is selected for processing,

wherein said processing includes voice recognition, text inputting, or selecting static pictures from moving pictures, for each of the related slide data in the presentation system; and

wherein after completion of the information processing for data in the presentation system, the presentation data is completed, and data presentation is initiated.

4. The method for generating presentation data as set forth in claim 3, wherein said processing the temporally related picture data and the voice data includes

recognizing the voice data and converting the voice data to text data.

5. A computer readable storage medium for storing a program executed by a computer to automatically generate presentation data based on temporal information, the program comprising the steps of:

selecting picture data and temporally relating the picture data to voice data,

wherein said temporally relating picture data to voice data includes comparing a shooting time of said picture data with recording times of said voice data and selecting voice data with a recording time that is closest to said shooting time;

processing the temporally related picture data and voice data to generate slides for presentation; and

displaying the presentation so that appropriate information regarding and included in the related picture data and voice data is displayed when the picture data is selected for processing,

wherein said processing includes voice recognition, text inputting, or selecting static pictures from moving pictures, for each of the related slide data in the presentation system; and

wherein after completion of the information processing for data in the presentation system, the presentation data is completed, and data presentation is initiated.