Titling apparatus, a titling method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for titling

• US 8,411,167 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2011
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ono, Shuji, Yoda, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Sinh
• Assistant Examiner(s): MONK, MARK T
• Application Number:
  US13/094,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20110199510A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 348/222.1, 348/231.99, 3482312-2316, 348/231.9
• US Class Current: 348/231.5
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00405 Output means output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/278 Subtitling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

An apparatus for giving a title to a captured image includes a unit for storing a captured image group including a plurality of captured images, a unit for storing an image capturing time when each of the stored images is captured, a unit for judging an image capturing period and an image capturing season including the stored image capturing time, a unit for storing terms respectively related to a plurality of periods with different time widths each of which includes a period and a season, the term corresponding to the period and the season, and a unit for giving a title to the stored captured image group by using a term related to a period of a wider time width out of the stored terms as a difference between the image capturing time and either the image capturing season or the acquired output time, whichever is longer.

Claims

1. A titling apparatus for giving a title to a captured image, comprising:

a captured image storing unit for storing a captured image;

a personal relationship terminology storing unit for storing terminology indicating a relationship of a plurality of persons;

a person to be captured deciding unit for deciding a person to be captured of the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

an outputting unit for outputting the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

a viewer deciding unit for deciding a viewer who views the captured image output by the outputting unit;

a titling unit for giving a title including a term to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit, wherein the term is stored by the personal relationship terminology storing unit to be corresponding to a relationship between the person to be captured decided by the person to be captured deciding unit and the viewer decided by the viewer deciding unit; and

an output controlling unit for making the outputting unit output the title given to the captured image by the titling unit as well as the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit,

wherein when the viewer decided by the viewer deciding unit is included in a plurality of persons to be captured decided by the person to be captured deciding unit, the titling unit gives a title indicating that the viewer is included in the captured image as a person to be captured to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit.

2. A method for giving a title to a captured image, comprising:

storing a captured image in a captured image storing unit;

storing terminology indicating a relationship of a plurality of persons in a personal relationship terminology storing unit;

deciding a person to be captured of the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

outputting the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

deciding a viewer who views the outputted captured image;

giving a title including a term to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit, wherein the term is stored by the personal relationship terminology storing unit to be corresponding to a relationship between the decided person to be captured and the decided viewer; and

outputting the title given to the captured image in addition to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit,

wherein when the decided viewer is included in a plurality of decided persons to be captured, the title given to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit indicates that the viewer is included in the captured image as a person to be captured.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is stored a program executable by a computer to perform a process for giving a title to a captured image, the process comprising:

storing a captured image in a captured image storing unit;

storing terminology indicating a relationship of a plurality of persons in a personal relationship terminology storing unit;

deciding a person to be captured of the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

outputting the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit;

deciding a viewer who views the outputted captured image;

giving a title including a term to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit, wherein the term is stored by the personal relationship terminology storing unit to be corresponding to a relationship between the decided person to be captured and the decided viewer; and

outputting the title given to the captured image in addition to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit, wherein when the decided viewer is included in a plurality of decided persons to be captured, the title given to the captured image stored by the captured image storing unit indicates that the viewer is included in the captured image as a person to be captured.