Information processing apparatus, method, and program

• US 8,693,843 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2008
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc., Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshimura, Shunji, Murabayashi, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): Arani, Taghi
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZAIDI, SYED A
• Application Number:
  US12/104,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20080285957A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,183 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/239, 386/241
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: accepting means for accepting user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; setting means for setting a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the accepting means to a user'"'"'s remarkable scene; acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating the remarkable scene contents; and display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents on the basis of the additional information and display of a list screen including an arrangement of the display indicating the remarkable scene contents for each remarkable scene.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

accepting means for accepting a user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium;

detecting means for detecting scene changes of the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium;

setting means for bookmarking a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification of the remarkable scene by the accepting means, such that the setting means bookmarks the remarkable scene, which starts at a scene change, of the scene changes detected by the detecting means;

acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating contents of the remarkable scene using character information, an image, or a combination thereof extracted from the video content;

storage means for storing the acquired additional information for each bookmarked remarkable scene from the video content together with other additional information for bookmarked remarkable scenes from other video contents, such that the storage means stores a plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates contents of one of a plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from a plurality of video contents; and

display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the contents of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes on the basis of the plurality of additional information stored in the storage means, such that the display includes a listing of the plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates the contents of one of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from the plurality of video contents, wherein

the acquiring means includes extracting means for extracting the character information, such that the character information is extracted from the video content based on a position of a cursor input of the user in the user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene, such that image data of a portion of a frame of the video content that includes the position is extracted and recognized as including an image of a person, and such that the character information extracted by the extracting means and displayed in the list screen includes a name of the person.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the accepting means accepts a separate user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene for each of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes included in the list screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the display controlling means generates the display as a user selectable interface, in which a user can select any of the additional information from the listing to cause the apparatus to reproduce the remarkable scene corresponding to the selected additional information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image division means for selecting a predetermined image area within the remarkable scene and setting an image corresponding to the selected image area as the image of the additional information, wherein

the acquiring means extracts the character information of the additional information from the image corresponding to the selected image area.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the frame of the video content that includes the person is used as the image extracted from the video content, which is displayed in the list screen.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the each of the plurality of additional information are displayed together at a same time.

7. A method of processing information, comprising the steps of:

accepting a user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium;

detecting a scene change of the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium;

bookmarking a remarkable scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the step of accepting to a user'"'"'s remarkable scene, such that the bookmarked remarkable scene starts at a scene change, of the scene changes that have been detected on the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium;

acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating contents of the remarkable scene using character information, an image, or a combination thereof extracted from the video content;

storing the acquired additional information for each bookmarked remarkable scene from the video content together with other additional information for bookmarked remarkable scenes from other video contents, such that a plurality of additional information are stored, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates contents of one of a plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from a plurality of video contents; and

display controlling for generating the display indicating the contents of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes on the basis of the plurality of additional information that is stored, such that the display includes a listing of the plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates the contents of one of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from the plurality of video contents, wherein

the acquiring includes extracting the character information, such that the character information is extracted from the video content based on a position of a cursor input of the user in the user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene, such that image data of a portion of a frame of the video content that includes the position is extracted and recognized as including an image of a person, and such that the character information extracted in the extracting and displayed in the list screen includes a name of the person.

8. The method of processing information according to claim 7, further comprising:

selecting a predetermined image area within the remarkable scene and setting an image corresponding to the selected image area as the image of the additional information; and

extracting the character information of the additional information from the image corresponding to the selected image area.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing, when executed by a computer, the computer to perform a method of information processing, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a scene change of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on the recording medium;

accepting a user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium;

bookmarking a remarkable scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification by the step of accepting to a user'"'"'s remarkable scene, such that the bookmarked remarkable scene starts at a scene change, of the scene changes that have been detected on the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium;

acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating contents of the remarkable scene using character information, an image, or a combination thereof extracted from the video content;

storing the acquired additional information for each bookmarked remarkable scene from the video content together with other additional information for bookmarked remarkable scenes from other video contents, such that a plurality of additional information are stored, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates contents of one of a plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from a plurality of video contents; and

display controlling for generating the display indicating the contents of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes on the basis of the plurality of additional information that is stored, such that the display includes a listing of the plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates the contents of one of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from the plurality of video contents, wherein

the acquiring includes extracting the character information, such that the character information is extracted from the video content based on a position of a cursor input of the user in the user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene, such that image data of a portion of a frame of the video content that includes the position is extracted and recognized as including an image of a person, and such that the character information extracted in the extracting and displayed in the list screen includes a name of the person.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, the method further comprising:

selecting a predetermined image area within the remarkable scene and setting an image corresponding to the selected image area as the image of the additional information; and

extracting the character information of the additional information from the image corresponding to the selected image area.

11. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a storage circuit;

a processor configured to;

detect a scene change of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on the recording medium,

accept a user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium,

bookmark a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification of the remarkable scene by the accepting mechanism, such that the bookmarked scene starts at a scene change, of the scene changes that have been detected on the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium,

acquire additional information for generating a display indicating contents of the remarkable scene using character information, an image, or a combination thereof extracted from the video content, and

store in the storage section the acquired additional information for each bookmarked remarkable scene from the video content together with other additional information for bookmarked remarkable scenes from other video contents, such that a plurality of additional information are stored, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates contents of one of a plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from a plurality of video contents; and

a display controlling circuit configured to control generation of the display indicating the contents of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes on the basis of the additional information that is stored, the display including a list of the plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates the contents of one of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from the plurality of video contents, wherein

the processor is configured to acquire the additional information by extracting the character information, such that the character information is extracted from the video content based on a position of a cursor input of the user in the user'"'"'s input of specification of a remarkable scene, such that image data of a portion of a frame of the video content that includes the position is extracted and recognized as including an image of a person, and such that the character information extracted in the extracting and displayed in the list screen includes a name of the person.

12. The information processing apparatus of claim 11, the processor further configured to:

select a predetermined image area within the remarkable scene and to set an image corresponding to the selected image area as the image of the additional information; and

extract the character information of the additional information from the image corresponding to the selected image area.