Apparatus, method and medium for information processing

• US 7,292,771 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2004
• Issued: 11/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyajima, Yasushi, Yamaguchi, Nobuaki, Nomura, Yasuo, Terashita, Yasuhiko, Eguchi, Tatsuo, Watanabe, Yoshikazu, Suzuki, Ai, Sasaki, Kumiko, Niijima, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller; John
• Assistant Examiner(s): ONUAKU, CHRISTOPHER O
• Application Number:
  US10/824,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20040190865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• Field of Search: 386/45, 386/46, 386/52, 386/83, 386/95, 386/125, 386/126, 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.04, 348/333.05, 348/333.11, 348/333.12, 348/563, 348/700, 725/37, 725/88, 725/100, 369/30.08
• US Class Current: 386/290
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/41 Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00416 Multi-level menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00421 using drop-down menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00424 using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00427 using a menu list H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00477 Indicating status, e.g. of a job for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N2201/3219
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution

Abstract

An information processing apparatus and process for dealing with moving pictures. A storage stores still pictures corresponding to scene switchovers of the moving pictures, and time stamps of the scene switchovers. A display controller provides a display control to display, given a reference position on the screen, the still pictures in positions at distances from the reference position. Those distances reflect differences between a time stamp corresponding to the reference position and the time stamp of the scene switchovers.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus for dealing with moving pictures, comprising:

storing means for storing still pictures corresponding to scene switchovers of said moving pictures, and time stamps of said scene switchovers; and

display controlling means for providing display control in such a manner as to display, given a reference position on a screen, said still pictures in positions at distances from said reference position, said distances reflecting differences between a time stamp corresponding to said reference position on the one hand and said time stamps of said scene switchovers on the other hand.

2. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling means provides display control in such a manner that the time stamp of a moving picture being reproduced by reproducing means corresponds to said reference position.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling means provides display control in such a manner as to shift continuously the positions of said still pictures in accordance with the time stamp of a moving picture being reproduced by reproducing means.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling means provides display control in such a manner as to display indications resembling sprocket perforations of a movie film in the vicinity of said still pictures.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display controlling means provides display control in such a manner as to display a reference position on said screen on a fixed and highlighted manner.

6. An information processing method for use with an information processing apparatus for dealing with moving pictures, the method comprising the steps of:

storing still pictures corresponding to scene switchovers of said moving pictures, and time stamps of said scene switchovers; and

providing display control in such a manner as to display, given a reference position on a screen, said still pictures in positions at distances from said reference position, said distances reflecting differences between a time stamp corresponding to said reference position on the one hand and said time stamps of said scene switchovers on the other hand.

7. A medium computer-readable encoded with a computer program for causing an information processing apparatus to process moving pictures to execute the computer program comprising the steps of:

storing still pictures corresponding to scene switchovers of said moving pictures, and times stamps of said scene switchovers; and

providing display control in such a manner as to display, given a reference position on a screen, said still pictures in positions at distances from said reference position, said distances reflecting differences between a time stamp corresponding to said reference position on the one hand and said time stamps of said scene switchovers on the other hand.