Contents recording system and contents recording method

• US 8,041,188 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2006
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishii, Masami, Hino, Takeharu, Fujihata, Katsuyuki, Moriya, Takuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhao; Daquan
• Application Number:
  US11/404,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20060245733A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,013 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/52, 386/55, 386/95, 386/107, 386125-126, 386/209, 386/210, 386/224, 386/239, 386/248, 386/278, 386/280
• US Class Current: 386/278
• 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 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A contents recording system and a contents recording method reducing a time taken for recording and editing of video content and other video contents. An optical disk device for recording video content and a computer are connected via a network. The computer is supplied with low resolution proxy AV data from the optical disk device, streaming reproduces it as live video and, at the same time, introduces essence marks as meta-data to any positions of the proxy AV data, and describes them in a meta-data file. Then, after finishing shooting one clip, the computer merges a meta-data file generated on the optical disk device side in accordance with camera adjustment and a meta-data file generated on the computer side in accordance with the user operation.

Claims

1. A contents recording system having a camera processing part transmitting video contents and a rough editing processing part receiving the video contents, wherein

the camera processing part includes

a contents recording part recording video contents in parts from a start of recording to an end of recording, and

a transmitting part starting transmission to the rough editing processing part in the order of recording the video contents before the contents recording part ends the recording of one video contents and when recording of the one video contents ends, upon receiving a request for a first file from the rough editing processing part, transmitting the first file thereto, the first file linking positions of said video contents and camera function index information set corresponding to respective positions, and

the rough editing processing part includes

a receiving part receiving the video contents from the camera processing part in order,

a display part displaying the received video contents, and

an index information processing part introducing, to a desired position of the video contents displayed on the display part, rough editing index information serving as an editing index of that position of the video and recording that position and the rough editing index information linked together into a second file and upon receiving the first file, generating a third file merging said first and second files and transmitting the third file to said camera processing part.

2. A contents recording system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said rough editing processing part successively displays the video of the positions of the video contents and index information linked together.

3. A contents recording system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said display part includes

a first display area successively displaying received video contents and

a second display area displaying the video of the positions of the video contents and index information linked together in a scrollable manner.

4. A contents recording system as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said camera processing part manages the video contents of the recorded objects by unique contents IDs, and

said rough editing processing part processes the received video contents and the contents IDs of the video contents linked together.

5. A contents recording system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said rough editing processing part has a detection part detecting a state of whether said contents recording part is in the middle of recording and displays the results of detection of said detection part on said display part.

6. A contents recording system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said camera processing part converts said video contents to second video contents of a lower resolution than said video contents and transmits that to the rough editing processing part.

7. A contents recording method performed between a camera processing system and a rough editing processing system, including

having the camera processing system

start recording of video contents, and

start transmission of the video contents to the rough editing processing system in the order of recording before ending the recording of the video contents and when recording of the one video contents ends, upon receiving a request for a first file from the rough editing processing part, transmitting the first file thereto, the first file linking positions of said video contents and camera function index information set corresponding to respective positions, and

having the rough editing processing system

sequentially receive the video contents,

display the received video contents,

introduce, to a desired position of the video contents to be displayed, rough editing index information serving as an editing index of that position of the video, and

record the introduced rough editing index information and the corresponding position linked together into a second file and upon receiving the first file, generating a third file merging said first and second files and transmitting the third file to said camera processing part.

8. A contents transmitting system of a camera for transmitting video contents to a rough editing processing system, comprising:

a contents recording part recording video contents in parts from a start of recording to an end of recording,

a transmitting part starting transmission of said video contents to said rough editing processing system in the order of recording before said contents recording part finishes recording one video contents, and

a processing part generating a first file linking positions of said video contents and camera function index information set corresponding to those positions linked together and transmitting the same to said rough editing processing system upon receiving a request for said first file from said rough editing processing system when recording of the video contents ends, wherein

said transmitting part acquires from said rough editing processing system a third file, the third file merging a second file linking positions of said video contents and rough editing index information and said first file which is generated conditional on said contents processing system upon finishing the recording of said video contents by said contents recording part, and said transmitting part records the acquired third file in place of said first file.

9. A rough editing contents processing system for processing video contents transmitted from a video contents transmitting system of a camera, comprising:

a receiving part receiving video contents from said video contents transmitting system of the camera in order and when recording of the video contents by the camera ends, receiving a first file linking positions of said video contents and camera function index information set corresponding to said positions generated by said video contents transmitting system, and

a processing part introducing, to a desired position of said video contents displayed on a display part, rough editing index information serving as an editing index of that position of the video and recording said position and said rough editing index information linked together and successively displaying on said display part the video of positions of the video contents and said rough editing index information linked together, wherein

said processing part generates a second file linking positions of video contents and said rough editing index information corresponding to said positions and generating a third file merging said first and second files conditional based on said video contents transmitting system finishing recording of said video contents, said third file transmitted to said video contents transmitting system.