Information processing device, information processing method and program

• US 9,734,406 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2010
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shiina, Hiroki, Mizukami, Kenichi, Ishizaka, Toshihiro, Jinno, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Topgyal, Gelek W
• Application Number:
  US12/655,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20110170841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,773 Days
• Field of Search: 348143-172, 386278-290
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/77 using statistical methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

An information processing device, which includes: a data holding section which holds first time-series data of an operation parameter which varies through a predetermined capturing operation; a data comparing section which compares second time-series data of the operation parameter with the first time-series data, the second time-series data being correlated with a moving image recorded through an actual capturing operation and varying through the actual capturing operation; and a data area specifying section which specifies, among the second time-series data, a data area corresponding to the first time-series data on the basis of the comparison of the first and second time-series data.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

compare reference information that corresponds to an amount associated with time-series movement of an imaging device with movement information that corresponds to an amount associated with time-series actual movement of the imaging device upon actual capture of a video image to obtain a comparison result, wherein the reference information includes a tolerance amount of the time-series movement of the imaging device along with the amount associated with the time-series movement, and wherein the reference information is generated prior to a start of the time-series actual movement of the imaging device upon the actual capture of the video image; and

output a start point and an end point on a time axis of the video image to specify a scene that corresponds to the reference information in the video image based on the comparison result.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the tolerance amount is determined arbitrarily.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the tolerance amount is set by a user.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, in which the circuitry is further configured to compare the reference information with the movement information while the video image is recorded in the actual capture of the video image.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, in which the circuitry is further configured to compare the reference information with the movement information after the video image is recorded in the actual capture of the video image.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a memory to store the reference information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the time-series actual movement of the imaging device corresponds to at least one of a pan operation, a tilt operation, a dolly operation, or a zoom operation of the imaging device.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the imaging device comprises a sensor, and the movement information is obtained based on the sensor.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, wherein the sensor comprises at least one of acceleration sensors, angular velocity sensors, gravity sensors or direction sensors.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the time-series movement of the imaging device corresponds to at least one of a pan operation, a tilt operation, a dolly operation or a zoom operation of the imaging device.

11. An information processing method, comprising:

comparing reference information corresponding to an amount associated with time-series movement of an imaging device with movement information corresponding to an amount associated with time-series actual movement of the imaging device during actual capturing of a video image to obtain a comparison result, wherein the reference information includes a tolerance amount of the time-series movement of the imaging device along with the amount associated with the time-series movement, and wherein the reference information is generated prior to a start of the time-series actual movement of the imaging device upon the actual capture of the video image; and

outputting a start point and an end point on a time axis of the video image to specify a scene corresponding to the reference information in the video image based on the comparison result,

at least one of the comparing or the outputting being performed by circuitry of an information processing device.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage memory having stored thereon a set of computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause a computer to perform operations, the operations comprising:

comparing reference information corresponding to an amount associated with time-series movement of an imaging device with movement information corresponding to an amount associated with time-series actual movement of the imaging device during actual capturing of a video image to obtain a comparison result, wherein the reference information includes a tolerance amount of the time-series movement of the imaging device along with the amount associated with the time-series movement, and wherein the reference information is generated prior to a start of the time-series actual movement of the imaging device upon the actual capture of the video image; and

outputting a start point and an end point on a time axis of the video image to specify a scene corresponding to the reference information in the video image based on the comparison result.