INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RELAY COMPUTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20150172364A1
• Filed: 11/11/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TOYODA, Shigeki, YOSHIKAWA, Jun, WAKATANI, Shigeki
• Granted Patent: US 10,379,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to acquire and output information of an operation screen on a display unit from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus, arrange the acquired thumbnail image in the region if the thumbnail image requested is acquired, and request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails until the acquisition is succeeded if the acquisition is failed due to the fact that the thumbnail image is not present.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a control unit configured to

acquire and output information of an operation screen on a display unit from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, the operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including a region for arranging a thumbnail image of the moving image, the information being described in a structured language,

request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

arrange the acquired thumbnail image in the region if the thumbnail image requested is acquired, and

request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails until the acquisition is succeeded if the acquisition is failed due to the fact that the thumbnail image is not present.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit is configured to output, if the acquisition is failed, an alternative image to the operation screen until the acquisition is succeeded and the acquired thumbnail image is outputted to the operation screen.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the control unit is configured to request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails, at time intervals defined in advance.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit starts the relay based on a GUI operation defined in advance with respect to the thumbnail image on the operation screen.

5. A relay apparatus of relaying at least one moving image from a moving image server storing the moving image to a different device, which is configured to determine whether or not a thumbnail image to be arranged in a region of an operation screen is present, and generate the thumbnail image from the moving image if it is not present when information of an operation screen described in a structured language and including a first region for arranging a thumbnail image of the moving image is outputted.

6. The relay apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the thumbnail image is generated and stored from the moving image when the moving image is relayed between the moving image server and the different device.

7. The relay apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the different device is a removable recording medium to the relay apparatus.

8. The relay apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the different device is a live video server configured to store a moving image for live broadcasting that is connectable to the relay apparatus via a network.

9. The relay apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the operation screen includes

a second region in which a list of moving images stored in the moving image server is displayed,

a third region in which a list of moving images stored in the different device is displayed, and

a fourth region in which a relay state of the moving image is displayed.

10. The relay apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the fourth region includes

at least one progress display unit configured to indicate a progress on the difference device in a relay processing per moving image.

11. An information processing system, comprising:

a moving image server storing at least one moving image;

a relay apparatus configured to relay the moving image from a moving image server to a different device and to store information of an operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including a region for arranging a thumbnail image of the moving image, the information being described in a structured language; and

an information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to

acquire and output the information of the operation screen on a display unit from the relay apparatus,

request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

arrange the acquired thumbnail image in the region if the thumbnail image requested is acquired, and

request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails until the acquisition is succeeded if the acquisition is failed due to the fact that the thumbnail image is not present.

12. An information processing program for causing a computer to function as a control unit configured to

acquire and output information of an operation screen on a display unit from a relay apparatus storing the information of the operation screen, the relay apparatus being configured to relay at least one moving image from a moving image server, in which the moving image is stored, to a different device via a network, the operation screen being used to operate the relay apparatus and including a region for arranging a thumbnail image of the moving image, the information being described in a structured language,

request the thumbnail image to be arranged in the region of the operation screen to the relay apparatus,

arrange the acquired thumbnail image in the region if the thumbnail image requested is acquired, and

request a thumbnail image the acquisition of which fails until the acquisition is succeeded if the acquisition is failed due to the fact that the thumbnail image is not present.