Image processing system

• US 7,873,905 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2003
• Issued: 01/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Taguchi, Shinya, Ogawa, Masakazu, Nagatani, Shunsuke, Egawa, Yutaka, Yamazoe, Nobuyuki, Suzuki, Michitoshi, Kanno, Eisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo; Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Augustine; Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US10/625,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20040155898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,735 Days
• Field of Search: 715/723, 715/720, 715/716, 715/719, 715/730, 715/721
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

An interface screen used for the correlation between video data and reference picture data includes: a screen 70 for displaying the video data reproduced by a video player; and a screen 73 for displaying a reference picture to be correlated with. When an operator enters an instruction to the operation portion 74 while reproduction video, the data for a reference picture displayed on the screen is correlated with a corresponding reproduction time position of the video data.

Claims

1. An image processing system, comprising:

a display screen for displaying a single interface including;

a video display section for reproducing and displaying video data on a screen;

a sync command data check program;

a picture display section for reproducing and displaying when initiated by the sync command data check program at least one of (i) still picture data extracted from the video data and (ii) data of a presentation document on the screen;

a designation section for accepting an instruction from a user to designate at least one item that is displayed by the picture display section, on the screen; and

a correlation section for, upon the instruction entered by the user during the reproduction of the video data creating sync command that correlates the at least one designated item with a reproduction time position in the video data, wherein the at least one designated item correlated with the video are stored with keyword searchable data of at least one of (iii) text data of the presentation document and (iv) voice index data of the video data for each still picture,

the sync command data check program checks for sync command data during reproduction and display of video data on the screen;

wherein the at least one designated item is displayed in different sizes, and the different sizes are based on the time length and importance level of a corresponding section of the video data.

2. An image processing system, comprising:

a registered client including

a display screen for displaying a single interface including;

a video display section for reproducing and displaying video data on a screen,

a sync command data check program,

a picture display section for reproducing and displaying when initiated by the sync command data check program at least one of (i) still picture data extracted from the video data and (ii) data of a presentation document on the screen,

a designation section for accepting an instruction from a user to designate at least one item that is displayed by the picture display section on the screen, and

a correlation section for, upon the instruction entered by the user during the reproduction of the video data creating sync command that correlates the at least one designated item with a reproduction time position in the video data; and

a distribution server for holding the video data and the at least one designated item that are correlated with each other, and in accordance with a request from a browsing client, providing the video data and the at least one designated item, wherein

the at least one designated item correlated with the video data are stored with keyword searchable data of at least one of (iii) text data of the presentation document and (iv) voice index data of the video data for each still picture,

the sync command data check program checks for sync command data during reproduction and display of video data on the screen;

wherein the at least one designated item is displayed in different sizes, and the different sizes are based on the time length and importance level of a corresponding section of the video data.

3. An image processing system according to claim 2, wherein the distribution server distributes, to the browsing client, correlation data for the video data and the at least one designated item, and provides the at least one designated item requested by the browsing client.

4. An image processing method, comprising:

reproducing and displaying video data on a screen;

providing a single interface screen for;

reproducing and displaying when initiated by a sync command data check program at least one of (i) still picture data extracted from the video data and (ii) data of a presentation document on the screen; and

in accordance with an instruction entered by a user during the reproduction of the video data to designate at least one item that is reproduced and creating sync command data that correlates the at least one designated item with a reproduction time position in the video data, wherein

the at least one designated item correlated with the video data are stored with keyword searchable data of at least one of (iii) text data of the presentation document and (iv) voice index data of the video data for each still picture; and

checking for sync command data during reproduction and display of video data on the screen;

wherein the at least one designated item is displayed in different sizes, and the different sizes are based on the time length and importance level of a corresponding section of the video data.

5. An image processing method, comprising:

reproducing and displaying video data on a screen;

providing a single interface screen for;

reproducing and displaying when initiated by a sync command data check program at least one of (i) still picture data extracted from the video data and (ii) data of a presentation document on the screen; and

in accordance with an instruction entered by a user during the reproduction of the video data to designate at least one item that is reproduced and displayed, creating sync command data that correlates the at least one designated item with a reproduction time position in the video data; and

registering the video data and the at least one designated item together with correlation data to a distribution server, wherein

the at least one designated item correlated with the video data are stored with keyword searchable data of at least one of (iii) text data of the presentation document and (iv) voice index data of the video data for each still picture; and

checking for sync command data during reproduction and display of video data on the screen;

wherein the at least one designated item is displayed in different sizes, and the different sizes are based on the time length and importance level of a corresponding section of the video data.

6. The image processing method according to claim 5, wherein

the correlation data is a program for requesting from the distribution server the at least one designated item in accordance with the reproduction time position in video data,

in accordance with a request from a browsing client, the distribution server provides video data and the program for the browsing client, and

the browsing client executes the program as the video data are reproduced, and requests from the distribution server the at least one designated item that are correlated with the reproduction time position.