Content Creation Apparatus And Content Creation Method

• US 20070283236A1
• Filed: 01/28/2005
• Published: 12/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sugiura, Masataka, Tsukamoto, Yoshihiro, Nunoshita, Masaoki
• Application Number:
  US10/588,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20070283236A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A content creation apparatus (10) has a playback control module (32) which plays back a multimedia template; an input module (26) which accepts a user'"'"'s instruction relating to selection of media data to be inserted into the multimedia template during playback of the multimedia template by the playback control module (32); a control module (30) which inserts the media data accepted through the input module (26) and plays back the multimedia template by the playback control module (32); and a scenario transforming module (38) which creates multimedia contents based on the multimedia template and confirmed media data in accordance with confirmation of the media data selected through the input module (26).

Claims

1. A content creation apparatus comprising:

a playback means which plays back a multimedia template into which media data can be inserted;

a media data accepting means which accepts a user'"'"'s instruction relating to selection of media data to be inserted into the multimedia template during playback of the multimedia template by the playback means;

a control means which inserts media data selected through the media data accepting means to the multimedia template and allows the playback means to play back the multimedia template; and

a multimedia content creating means which creates multimedia contents based on the multimedia template and confirmed media data in accordance with confirmation of the media data selected through the media data accepting means.

2. The content creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the playback means stops playback of the multimedia template from time when a user instructs starting selection of media data to time when selection of media data is completed.

3. The content creation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a means which encourages a user to select media data relating to a time period to allow insertion during playback of the multimedia template.

4. The content creation apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the means which encourages selection stops playback of the multimedia template at time to start the time period to allow insertion.

5. The content creation apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the means which encourages selection presents a user that it is a time period to allow accepting selection of media data during the time period to allow insertion.

6. The content creation apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the means which encourages selection displays information about potential media data to be selectable on a screen.

7. The content creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the playback means displays an area into which media data is inserted as an image on a multimedia template that is being played back.

8. The content creation apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the media data accepting means accepts insertion of media data into the insertion area in accordance with selection of an image in the insertion area displayed in the insertion area.

9. The content creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control means shifts a position to start playback of media data selected through the media data accepting means from a top of the media data by an amount of elapsed time to playback the multimedia template from time to start playback of a part to allow insertion of media data to time to accept media data by the media data accepting means.

10. The content creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the media data accepting means can accept an instruction to use a moving picture or a still image that is being shot by an image pickup means as media data to be inserted into the multimedia template.

11. A content creation method comprising steps of:

playing back a multimedia template into which media data can be inserted;

accepting an input of a user'"'"'s instruction relating to selection of media data to be inserted into the multimedia template during playback of the multimedia template;

inserting media data selected by the inputted user'"'"'s instruction to the multimedia template and playing back the multimedia template; and

creating multimedia contents based on the multimedia template and confirmed media data in accordance with confirmation of the media data selected by the inputted user'"'"'s instruction.

12. A program which creates multimedia contents, the program allowing a computer to implement processes of:

playing back a multimedia template into which media data can be inserted;

accepting an input of a user'"'"'s instruction relating to selection of media data to be inserted into the multimedia template during playback of the multimedia template;

inserting media data selected by the inputted user'"'"'s instruction to the multimedia template and playing back the multimedia template; and

creating moving picture contents based on the multimedia template and confirmed media data in accordance with confirmation of the media data selected by the inputted user'"'"'s instruction.