JP2003067097A - Method and device for multi-window moving picture display - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device for multi-window moving picture display which make it possible to selectively listen to a necessary voice by outputting only the voice corresponding to a specified moving picture among a plurality of moving picture display windows. SOLUTION: A plurality of windows are displayed on a bit-map display 108 and a moving picture input device 106 displays pieces of moving picture information in the windows respectively. A voice selector 102 receives voices corresponding to the pieces of moving picture information respectively. When one of the windows which are displayed is specified by a pointing device 105, an input/output processor 104 controls a voice selector 102 to select and outputs one voice corresponding to the indicated window to a speaker 109. Consequently, the one selected voice is outputted and other voices are not outputted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multi-window moving image display method and apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a moving image is displayed on a bitmap display of a computer, an external video reproducing device such as a video tape recorder (hereinafter referred to as VTR) or a laser disc player (hereinafter referred to as LD player) is used. It is common to capture the video output in the display system of a computer. When audio output is required, the audio output of the video reproduction device is directly reproduced by the speaker.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional example has the following drawbacks when a plurality of moving images are simultaneously reproduced on a multi-window on a bit map display and an audio is output.
That is, since the user cannot selectively listen to the sound corresponding to the video that he or she is paying attention to, 1) it becomes impossible to decipher the sound because a plurality of sounds are reproduced at the same time, and 2) all sounds are output. Instead, it is necessary to make it silent, 3) The situation occurs such that the sound corresponding to only one video is fixedly output.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional example, and an object of the present invention is to output only a sound corresponding to a specified moving image from a plurality of moving image display windows. It is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-window moving image display method and device capable of selectively listening to voices.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a multi-window moving image display device according to the present invention has the following configuration. That is, window display means for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen, image display means for displaying a plurality of moving image information in the plurality of windows, and respective voices corresponding to the plurality of moving image information are input. Input means, judgment means for judging whether or not one window is designated from the plurality of windows displayed on the display screen, and the judgment means
When it is determined that one window is designated, a selection unit that selects one voice corresponding to the designated window from the respective voices input to the input unit, and one voice selected by the selection unit And an output unit for outputting the selected one voice,
It is characterized in that no other sound is output.

Further, a multi-window moving image display method according to the present invention which achieves the above object, comprises an image display step of displaying a plurality of moving image information in a plurality of windows displayed on a display screen, and the plurality of moving images. An input step of inputting each voice corresponding to the image information, a determination step of determining whether or not one window is designated from a plurality of windows displayed on the display screen, and the determination step If it is determined that one window has been designated by, the selection step of selecting one voice corresponding to the designated window from the respective voices input in the input step, and the one selected in the selection step. An output step of outputting one voice, outputting one of the selected voices and not outputting the other voice. It is characterized in.

[0007]

According to the above construction, a plurality of moving image information is displayed in each of a plurality of windows displayed on the display screen. Here, if it is determined that one of the plurality of windows displayed on the display screen is designated, one of the windows designated by the respective voices corresponding to the plurality of moving image information is designated. Audio is selected and output. Thus, one selected voice is output and the other voices are not output.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

<First Embodiment> FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the first embodiment. Reference numeral 106 denotes a moving image capturing device, and a plurality of external image reproducing devices 10 such as an LD player and a VTR.
The moving image image reproduced in 1 and the image formed by the display frame memory 107 are taken in, the images are combined in an analog manner, and a video signal is output to the bitmap display 108. Reference numeral 102 denotes an audio selector, which selects one audio signal from a plurality of audio signals from the external video reproduction device 101 and outputs the audio signal to the speaker 109. The selection of the audio signal by the audio selector 102 is controlled by a control signal from a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 103 of the computer. The voice selector 10
2 is connected to the CPU 103 via an input / output processing device (hereinafter referred to as IOP) 104. A pointing device 105 is a mouse in this embodiment. The CPU 103 detects that the pointer (display cursor) operated by the mouse 105 has entered the moving image display window on the bitmap display 108, and controls the audio selector 102 to select the audio signal corresponding to this moving image. To do. Reference numeral 110 denotes a main memory, which stores a voice selection program executed by the CPU 103 (a flowchart of FIG. 2 described later).

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the basic operation of the voice selection program. The program according to this flowchart is stored in the main memory 105.

First, the program performs a moving image display start process. This executes the setting of the window system on the computer in step S1 and the setting of the moving image capturing device in step S2. Thereafter, the program proceeds to step S3 and enters a loop waiting for an event from the window system. If an event occurs and the event is an event corresponding to mouse movement, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6, and detection of the movement destination of the pointer after the mouse movement is executed. Then, in step S7, it is determined whether or not the moving destination of the pointer is within the moving image display window. If the destination of the pointer is within the moving image display window, the process proceeds to step S8, the voice selector 102 is controlled to obtain the voice corresponding to the moving image displayed at the destination of the pointer, and the designated moving image is displayed. Select the corresponding voice. The above process is repeated until a moving image display end event occurs. When a moving image display end event occurs, the process advances from step S4 to step S9 to end this voice selection program.

<Second Embodiment> FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the second embodiment. An external storage device 301 is, for example, a magnetic disk or a magneto-optical disk, and video data and audio data are digitized and stored in the external storage device 301. Reference numeral 303 denotes digital video high-speed transfer hardware, which transfers a plurality of video data stored in the external storage device 301 to the display frame memory 107 and combines them. The combined video data is output as a video signal to the bit map display 108 via the D / A converter 305 to reproduce the video. 302 is a digital voice transfer hardware,
One is read out from a plurality of audio data stored in the external storage device 301, and audio is reproduced by the speaker 109 through the D / A converter 304. The output voice is selected by designating the voice data to be read to the high-speed digital voice transfer hardware 302. The main memory 110 stores a program for executing the same voice selection processing procedure as in the first embodiment, and the CPU 103 designates the voice data for the digital voice high-speed transfer hardware.

Therefore, as in the case of the first embodiment, the determination of which voice is selected is made by detecting in which moving image display window the pointer (display cursor) operated by the mouse 105 is. That is, the specified moving image is detected by detecting the position of the pointer on the bitmap display 108 operated by the mouse 105, and is read to the digital audio high-speed transfer hardware corresponding to the video data of the specified moving image. The output voice is selected by designating the voice data to be output.

As described above, one of a plurality of moving images on the display is operated by operating the pointer with the mouse.
By designating two moving images, the sound corresponding to the designated moving images can be selectively heard.

In the above embodiment, the example of the mouse is given as the pointing device, but the pointing device is not limited to this, and may be, for example, a touch panel, a light pen, a viewpoint sensor (a spectacle-shaped sensor for detecting where one is looking), or the like. Any video display window can be specified. Also, assign a number to each video display window,
It is also possible to specify the moving image by inputting the number from a keyboard or the like.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a program that causes a system or an apparatus to execute the processing defined by the present invention.

[0017]

As described above, according to the multi-window moving image display method and apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to output only the sound corresponding to the designated moving image from a plurality of moving image displays, which is necessary. You can selectively listen to the voice.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a voice selection processing procedure.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 video playback device 102 voice selector 103 central processing unit CPU 104 I / O processor IOP 105 pointing device 106 Video capture device 108 bitmap display 111 speakers 110 main memory

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A window display unit for displaying a plurality of windows on a display screen, an image display unit for displaying a plurality of moving image information in each of the plurality of windows, and an image display unit corresponding to each of the plurality of moving image information. Input means for inputting voice, judging means for judging whether or not one of the plurality of windows displayed on the display screen is designated, and one window is designated by the judging means. If it is determined that the sound is selected, a selection unit that selects one sound corresponding to the instructed window from the respective sounds input to the input unit, and an output unit that outputs the one sound selected by the selection unit A multi-window moving image display device, comprising: outputting one selected sound and not outputting another sound. 2. An image display step of displaying a plurality of moving image information in a plurality of windows displayed on a display screen, and an input step of inputting respective sounds corresponding to the plurality of moving image information. A determination step of determining whether or not one window is instructed from a plurality of windows displayed on the display screen; and, if it is determined in the determination step that one window is instructed, the input 1 corresponding to the instructed window from each of the sounds input in step 1
A multi-character comprising a selection step of selecting one voice and an output step of outputting one voice selected in the selection step, wherein one selected voice is output and no other voice is output. Window animation display method.