JP2002094941A5

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Publication number: JP2002094941A5
Application number: JP2000284177A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2000-09-19
Publication date: 2005-06-23
Anticipated expiration: 2020-09-19

Claims

For recording video information including still images in a data format of a predetermined format on a recordable / reproducible information medium,
Mode designation means for designating a still image continuous capture mode for continuously capturing still images;
Video information receiving means for receiving video information including one or more still image information;
When the still image continuous capture mode is specified by the mode specifying means, the video content of the video information received by the video information receiving means is checked, and if the video content changes, the change is detected. Image change detection means;
Encoding means for encoding still image information of one frame or one field corresponding to the video content detected by the video change detecting means into an MPEG I picture;
Data format conversion means for converting digital information including the I picture encoded by the encoding means into a data format of the predetermined format ;
A digital video information apparatus comprising management information creating means for creating management information for collecting a plurality of still images for each still image group .

For recording video information including still images in a data format of a predetermined format on a recordable / reproducible information medium,
Mode designation means for designating a still image continuous capture mode for continuously capturing still images;
Video information receiving means for receiving video information including one or more still image information;
When the still image continuous capture mode is specified by the mode specifying means, the video content of the video information received by the video information receiving means is checked, and if the video content changes, the change is detected. Image change detection means;
After the video change detecting means detects a change in video content, it checks whether or not the video frame included in the video information has passed the specified number of frames, and if the specified number of frames has passed, the specified frame has passed. Detection means;
Encoding means for encoding one frame or one field of still image information corresponding to video content when the designated frame progress detecting means detects the passage of the designated number of frames into an MPEG I picture;
Data format conversion means for converting digital information including the I picture encoded by the encoding means into a data format of the predetermined format ;
A digital video information apparatus comprising management information creating means for creating management information for collecting a plurality of still images for each still image group .

For recording video information including still images in a data format of a predetermined format on a recordable / reproducible information medium,
Mode designation means for designating a still image continuous capture mode for continuously capturing still images;
Video information receiving means for receiving video information including one or more still image information;
When the still image continuous capture mode is specified by the mode specifying means, the video content of the video information received by the video information receiving means is checked, and if the video content changes, the change is detected. Image change detection means;
After the video change detecting means detects the video content change, it is checked whether a predetermined number of video frames having the same content included in the video information are continued. Means for continuously detecting the same frame to be detected;
Encoding means for encoding one frame or one field of still image information corresponding to video content when the same frame continuation detecting means detects the same frame continuation into an MPEG I picture;
Data format conversion means for converting digital information including the I picture encoded by the encoding means into a data format of the predetermined format ;
A digital video information apparatus comprising management information creating means for creating management information for collecting a plurality of still images for each still image group .

4. A key input unit for inputting date and time data, and a recording date and time setting unit for setting date and time data input by the key input unit as recording date and time management information. The apparatus of any one of these.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising recording means for recording information in a data format converted by the converting means on the information medium.

6. The apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising reproducing means for reproducing recorded information from the information medium.

In a method for recording video information including a still image in a data format of a predetermined format on a recordable / reproducible information medium,
Specify still image continuous capture mode to capture still images continuously;
Receiving video information including one or more still image information;
When the still image continuous capture mode is designated, the video content of the received video information is checked, and if a change occurs in the video content, the change is detected;
Encoding one frame or one field of still image information corresponding to the video content in which the change is detected, into an MPEG I picture;
Converting digital information including the encoded I picture into a data format of the predetermined format;
A method of recording a plurality of still images , comprising: creating management information for collecting a plurality of still images for each still image group .

When the number of the plurality of still images continuously recorded in the data recording area of the information medium has reached the predetermined number determined in the setting of the still image group, the plurality of still images recorded continuously The method according to claim 7, wherein information is registered in the management information.

When the recording time of the plurality of still images continuously recorded in the data recording area of the information medium changes, information regarding the plurality of still images recorded continuously is registered in the management information. 9. A method according to claim 7 or claim 8.

When the recording time of the plurality of still images continuously recorded in the data recording area of the information medium reaches a predetermined time, information on the plurality of still images recorded continuously is registered in the management information 10. A method according to any one of claims 7 to 9, characterized in that

The information relating to the plurality of still images recorded continuously is registered in the management information when continuous recording of the plurality of still images to the data recording area of the information medium is switched by a user operation. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 10.

The information relating to the plurality of still images recorded continuously is registered in the management information when an attribute of a source of the plurality of still images recorded in the data recording area of the information medium is changed. The method according to any one of claims 7 to 10.