Recording/reproducing system

• US 7,609,901 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2004
• Issued: 10/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sagisaka, Akihiro, Date, Osamu, Aridome, Kenichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Do; Anh Hong
• Application Number:
  US10/557,487
• Publication Number:
  US 20070035639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,043 Days
• Field of Search: 382/232, 382/312, 382/321, 382/236, 382/233, 356/479, 356/497, 386/95, 386/125, 386/E9.013, 348/231.3
• US Class Current: 382/236
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• 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

Abstract

Time varying images 712 before coded are rearranged in a coding stage into unitary images 722 having the sequence of time stamps DTS 725. A GPS or the like provides position information indicative of the position whereat the respective unitary image of a motion image has been captured. The unitary image and the position information are correlated to one another by setting common time stamps PTS (724 and 723) thereon. When decoding each of blocks of coded and multiplexed data 731 to 735, the position information corresponding to the unitary image is specified. Thereby, the unitary image of the coded motion image and the corresponding position information are correlated to one another, whereby a trajectory of the motion image can be displayed on a map in accordance with the position information.

Claims

1. An information generating apparatus comprising:

image capturing means that captures a motion image to thereby generate motion image data;

position information acquiring means that acquires position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured;

motion image coding means that codes the motion image data; and

multiplexing means that performs multiplexing by correlating the respective position information corresponding to at least one unitary image in the coded motion image data.

2. An information generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

system time generating means that generates a system time, wherein the multiplexing means adds the system time common to the corresponding unitary image and position information thereto to thereby correlate the unitary image and the position information.

3. A recording apparatus comprising:

image capturing means that captures a motion image, thereby to generate motion image data;

position information acquiring means that acquires position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured;

motion image coding means that codes the motion image data;

system time generating means that generates a system time;

multiplexing means that, for the motion image data coded by adding the system time common to at least one unitary image and the position information corresponding to the unitary image thereto, performs multiplexing by correlating the unitary image and the position information; and

recording means that records the multiplexed data into recording medium.

4. A playback apparatus comprising:

image decoding means that, for data wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, performs decoding of the motion image data; and

displaying means that correlates the position information, which is correlated to the decoded motion image data, and a representative image of the motion image data, and performs display thereof on a map.

5. A playback apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

operation input means that receives an operation from the outside, wherein when a specification of the representative image is input by the operation input means, the displaying means displays the motion image data in from the unitary image.

6. A playback apparatus further comprising:

image decoding means that, for data wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, performs decoding of the motion image data; and

superposing means that performs display by superposing a motion image played back in accordance with the decoded motion image data and a map indicating the position information corresponding to the motion image played back.

7. A playback apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

communication means for acquiring the map.

8. A playback apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the map contains famous-place information on a corresponding area.

9. A playback apparatus comprising:

separating means that, for data wherein at least one unitary image in coded motion image data and position information corresponding to the unitary image are correlated by a common presented time and are thereby multiplexed, separates the motion image data and the position information from one another;

image decoding means that decodes the separated motion image data;

output means that outputs the separated position information and the unitary image of the decoded motion image data including the presented time common to the position information; and

superposing means that performs display by superposing a map indicating the output position information and a motion image containing the output unitary image.

10. A recording and/or playback system comprising:

a recording apparatus for recoding data containing motion image data into a recording medium, the recording apparatus including,

capturing means for capturing a motion image to thereby generate the motion image data,

position information acquiring means for acquiring position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured,

motion image coding means for coding the motion image data,

multiplexing means for multiplexing by correlating at least one unitary image and the position information corresponding to the unitary image in the coded motion image data, and

recording means for recording the multiplexed data into the recording medium; and

a playback apparatus for performing playback of the motion image data included in the data recorded in the recorded medium, the playback apparatus including,

separating means for separating data recorded in the recording medium into the coded motion image data and the position information,

image decoding means for decoding the coded motion image data,

output means for outputting the separated position information and a unitary image of motion image data correlated to the position information, and

superposing means for displaying by superposing a map indicating the output position information and a motion image containing the output unitary image.

11. An image processing method comprising:

capturing a motion image with an image processing device to thereby generate motion image data;

acquiring position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured;

a step of coding the motion image data with the image processing device;

multiplexing by correlating the respective position information corresponding to at least one unitary image in the coded motion image data; and

outputting the multiplexed data from the image processing device.

12. An image processing method characterized by comprising:

capturing a motion image with an image processing device to thereby generate motion image data;

acquiring position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured with the image processing device;

coding the motion image data;

a step of multiplexing by correlating the respective position information corresponding to at least one unitary image in the coded motion image data; and

recording the multiplexed data into a recording medium.

13. An image processing method comprising:

performing decoding of motion image data, wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, at an image processing device;

rendering the position information on a map; and

displaying a motion image containing a unitary image correlated to the position information, together with the map at the image processing device.

14. An image processing method comprising:

performing decoding of motion image data, wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, at an image processing device;

acquiring a map, when a map corresponding to the position information is not possessed,

rendering the position information on the map; and

displaying a motion image containing a unitary image correlated to the position information, together with the map.

15. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions accessed by a computer to transform the computer into an image processing device upon execution of the computer readable instructions to implement a method of image processing, comprising:

capturing a motion image with an image processing device to thereby generate motion image data;

acquiring position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured;

a step of coding the motion image data with the image processing device;

multiplexing by correlating the respective position information corresponding to at least one unitary image in the coded motion image data; and

outputting the multiplexed data from the image processing device.

16. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions accessed by a computer to transform the computer into an image processing device upon execution of the computer readable instructions to implement a method of image processing, comprising:

capturing a motion image with an image processing device to thereby generate motion image data;

acquiring position information indicative of a position where the motion image has been captured with the image processing device;

coding the motion image data;

a step of multiplexing by correlating the respective position information corresponding to at least one unitary image in the coded motion image data; and

recording the multiplexed data into a recording medium.

17. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions accessed by a computer to transform the computer into an image processing device upon execution of the computer readable instructions to implement a method of image processing, comprising:

performing decoding of the motion image data, wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, at an image processing device;

rendering the position information on a map; and

displaying a motion image containing a unitary image correlated to the position information, together with the map at the image processing device.

18. A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions accessed by a computer to transform the computer into an image processing device upon execution of the computer readable instructions to implement a method of image processing, comprising:

performing decoding of the motion image data, wherein coded motion image data and position information corresponding to at least one unitary image of the motion image data are correlated to one another, at an image processing device;

acquiring a map, when a map corresponding to the position information is not possessed,

rendering the position information on the map; and

displaying a motion image containing a unitary image correlated to the position information, together with the map.