JP2003101991A - Video processing method, device, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video processing method, device, and program capable of generating video images matched with a preference of a viewer without imposing huge burdens on an editor. SOLUTION: At the time of selecting a plurality of video images or one optional part and distributing one viewable video image by a video distribution part 12, a selection information acquisition part 13 acquires selection states of the respective video images, a viewing rate calculation part 14 calculates viewing rates of the respective video images on the basis of the selection states and a video editing part 15 performs editing of successively rearranging a plurality of the video images on the basis of the calculated viewing rates and generates the video images for recording.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image processing method, apparatus and program, and more particularly to an image processing method, apparatus and program for editing an image captured by one or more cameras to generate one image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for video such as a video stream distributed via the Internet, an editor selects a specific video from a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of cameras and rearranges the selected video in time series. It was generated by.
This video generation method is not limited to the case where a video for distribution is generated using a plurality of videos that have been taken in advance, and even when real-time distribution (live broadcast) is performed, The video will be generated in a similar manner, as the editor monitors and switches to the particular video.

According to this video generation method, as shown in FIG. 12, the time t1, t4, and t7 are the video A and the time t2.
A stream in which the image B is selected at t5 and the image C is selected at times t3 and t6 is generated. When the stream shown in FIG. 12 is applied to a specific example, the image A is an image of the entire view of the game field in a soccer game, the image B is an image of a ball, and the image C is focused. It will be a video of a player who is present.

[0004]

However, when a video such as a video stream is generated by the above-described method, the generated video depends on the sensibility of the editor, and therefore does not necessarily match the taste of the viewer. May not always be. Further, the editor also needs to appropriately select a specific video from a plurality of videos, which will increase the burden.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an image processing method, device and program capable of generating an image which matches the taste of a viewer without imposing a heavy burden on the editor.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention of claim 1 is a video processing method for editing video in time series to generate video data, wherein a plurality of selectable video groups are provided. While allowing the viewers to view, calculate the audience ratings of the videos selected by the plurality of viewers,
It is characterized in that one target video is selected from the video group based on the calculated audience rating, and the selected target video is rearranged in time series to generate video data.

According to a second aspect of the invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the image group is a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras, and each of the plurality of images is selected by a plurality of viewers. It is characterized by

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the video group is one selectable video capable of selectively viewing an arbitrary part, and the audience rating is the selectable video. It is characterized in that it is calculated based on the partial video selected from the video.

Further, in the invention of claim 4, in the invention of claim 3, the audience rating is calculated based on pixels included in the partial image selected by each of a plurality of viewers. And

Further, the invention of claim 5 is characterized in that, in the invention of claim 1, the video of interest is a video having the highest audience rating at each time point among the videos of the video group.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the attention video is selected within a predetermined time by an amount corresponding to each of the video ratings of each video of the video group. It is a featured image.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the target video is a video that exceeds a preset audience rating at each time point among the video of the video group.
When there is no video exceeding the set audience rating, a video specified in advance among the videos in the video group is set as the video of interest.

According to the invention of claim 8, in a video processing device for editing video in time series to generate video data,
A video distribution means for distributing a selectable video group to a plurality of viewers; a selection information acquisition means for acquiring selection information of a video selected by the viewer from the video group distributed by the video distribution means; Based on the selection information acquired by the information acquisition means, an audience rating calculation means for calculating the audience rating of each video of the video group, and one attention from the video group based on the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculation means And a video editing unit for generating a video data by selecting the video and rearranging the selected video of interest in time series.

According to a ninth aspect of the invention, in the eighth aspect of the invention, the video distribution means distributes reduced videos of a plurality of videos taken by a plurality of cameras as the video group, and the selection information. The video selected by the viewer is distributed to each viewer based on the selection information acquired by the acquisition means.

According to a tenth aspect of the invention, in the eighth aspect of the invention, the video distribution means distributes one selectable video capable of selectively viewing an arbitrary part as the video group, and The partial video selected by the viewer from the selectable video is distributed to each viewer based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition means.

According to the invention of claim 11, in the invention of claim 10, the audience rating calculation means selects from the selectable video image by each viewer based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition means. It is characterized in that the partial video is specified, and the audience rating of each partial image is calculated based on the overlapping state of the specified partial images.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the eleventh aspect of the present invention, the audience rating calculating means calculates the audience rating of each partial image based on the pixels included in the partial video. .

According to a thirteenth aspect of the present invention, in the eighth aspect of the present invention, the image editing means selects, as the attention image, an image having the highest audience rating at each time point among the images in the image group. It is characterized by

According to a fourteenth aspect of the present invention, in the eighth aspect of the present invention, the video editing means, at a constant time interval, processes each video image of the video image group for a time period corresponding to a ratio of audience ratings of the video images. It is characterized in that only the target video is selected.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, in the eighth aspect of the present invention, the image editing means sets, as the attention image, an image that exceeds a preset audience rating at each time point among the images of the image group. In addition to the selection, if there is no video exceeding the set audience rating, a video specified in advance among the videos in the video group is selected as the video of interest.

According to a sixteenth aspect of the present invention, in a video processing program for causing a computer to perform a process of time-sequentially editing video to generate video data, a selectable video group is distributed to a plurality of viewers. , Calculating an audience rating of each of the videos selected by the plurality of viewers, selecting one attention video from the video group based on the calculated audience rating, and rearranging the selected attention videos in time series It is characterized in that the image data is generated by

According to a seventeenth aspect of the present invention, in the sixteenth aspect, the image group is a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras, and each of the plurality of images is selected by a plurality of viewers. It is characterized by

[0023] According to the invention of claim 18, in the invention of claim 16, the video group is one selectable video capable of selectively viewing an arbitrary part, and a part of each of the selectable images is selected. Is characterized by allowing a plurality of viewers to select.

In the invention of claim 19, in the invention of claim 18, the audience rating is calculated based on the pixels included in the partial images selected by each of a plurality of viewers. And

According to the twentieth aspect of the invention, in the sixteenth aspect of the invention, the video having the highest audience rating at each time point is selected as the video of interest from among the videos of the video group.

According to a twenty-first aspect of the invention, in the sixteenth aspect of the invention, each video of the video group is selected as the video of interest for a certain period of time according to the ratio of the ratings of the respective videos. It is characterized in that

According to a twenty-second aspect of the present invention, in the sixteenth aspect of the invention, an image which exceeds a preset audience rating at each time point is selected as the attention image from among the images of the image group, and the setting is performed. When there is no video exceeding the audience rating, a video designated in advance among the videos in the video group is selected as the video of interest.

[0028]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a video processing method, apparatus and program according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a video distribution system to which the present invention is applied. As shown in the figure, the video distribution system includes a video processing device 1, a plurality of cameras 2 (2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4) and a plurality of viewing devices 3 (3-1 to 3). -N) is provided.

The video processing device 1 distributes the video imaged by the camera 2 to the viewing device 3 in real time, acquires the selection information described later from the viewing device 3 and automatically edits the video image used for re-distribution or the like. The camera 2 is a normal video camera. The viewing device 3 is a device for viewing the distributed video, and includes the cameras 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, and 2.
The image desired by the viewer can be selected and viewed from the images A, B, C, and D captured at -4. The viewing device 3 also transmits selection information indicating the video selected by the viewer to the video processing device 1.

Note that this video distribution system is a general outline common to various types of systems, and other devices (not shown) or the like are required depending on the various systems, and the type of the viewing device 3 is different. Become. A video distribution system to which the present invention is applicable is a system capable of two-way communication. For example, in the video distribution system using the Internet, the viewing device 3 is a web browser or a computer device in which dedicated software runs. Is equivalent to
Illustration of the Internet and various devices for connecting to the Internet will be omitted. In a video distribution system using digital broadcasting by satellite waves or terrestrial waves or cable television, the viewing device 3 corresponds to a receiver (television), and various devices necessary for the broadcasting system are not shown. become.

Further, the image processing apparatus 1 does not necessarily need to acquire the image captured by each camera 2 in real time, and may reproduce and acquire the image recorded by each camera 2. It is possible.

Next, details of the video processing device 1 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the video processing device 1. As shown in FIG.
Includes a video acquisition unit 11, a video distribution unit 12, a selection information acquisition unit 13, an audience rating calculation unit 14, a video editing unit 15, and a video recording unit 16. It should be noted that each unit configuring the video processing device 1 may be configured by dedicated hardware, or may be implemented by software operating on a computer device provided with predetermined hardware.

The image acquisition unit 11 acquires an image captured by each camera 2. The video distribution unit 12 includes the video acquisition unit 11
Are distributed to the viewing device 3 in a format in which a plurality of videos acquired by the viewer can be viewed simultaneously, for example, a format in which each video is reduced or reduced in quality, and the selection information acquisition unit 13
On the basis of the selection information acquired by (1), the video desired by the viewer is distributed in a format different from the video for simultaneous viewing, for example, in a format in which the size of the photographed image or high quality is set. Since the viewer's selection information cannot be acquired at the time of starting the distribution of the video, the preset default video is distributed instead of the video selected by the viewer.

The selection information acquisition unit 13 acquires the selection information indicating the video selected by the viewer from each viewing device 3, and passes this to the video distribution unit 12 and the audience rating calculation unit 14. The audience rating calculation unit 14 calculates the respective audience ratings of the images captured by the cameras 2 based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition unit 13.

The video editing unit 15 edits the video acquired by the video acquisition unit 11 based on the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculation unit 14. It should be noted that the video editing unit 15 is used by the video acquisition unit 11
Since the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculation unit 14 may be delayed with respect to the image received from, the image editing unit 15 also has a function of buffering the image. The video recording unit 16 records the video edited by the video editing unit 15 in an external storage device (not shown) or the like.

Next, the viewing device 3 will be described. Here, as an example of the viewing device 3, a case where a video distributed via the Internet is displayed on a web browser will be described. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the web browser.

As shown in the figure, on the display screen 30 of the web browser, the reduced display frame 31 of the image A captured by the camera 2-1 and the reduced display frame 32 of the image B captured by the camera 2-2 are displayed. Reduced display frame 3 of image C captured by 2-3
3, a reduced display frame 34 of the image D captured by the camera 2-4 is displayed, and a display frame 35 for standard display of one of the images selected by the viewer from the image A, the image B, the image C, and the image D. Is displayed. Further, in the display frame 35, a selection button 36 for the viewer to select an image is displayed.

As a result, the viewer can see the reduced display frame 31,
Select a desired video by referring to the reduced display of each video displayed on 32, 33, 34, and select the selected video button 3
It can be displayed in the display frame 35 by operating 6. When the viewer operates the selection button, the operation state is used as the selection information by the web browser 3.
From 0 to the video processing device 1.

Next, an image editing method in the image processing apparatus 1 will be described. In the video processing device 1, the video editing unit 15 edits a video based on the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculating unit 14. There are various editing methods, and a few examples will be described below. To do. Each of the editing methods has its own characteristics, and it is possible to select an appropriate editing method depending on the type of the video target such as sports relay, lecture relay, and live music relay.

[Editing Method Example 1] In this editing method, the video editing unit 15 selects the video with the highest rating from among the videos acquired by the video acquisition unit 11 and records it in the video recording unit 16. Let Video selection is performed in real time according to the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculation unit 14. However, depending on the video, the maximum viewership time may be extremely short, and if you select this as it is, a video that is difficult to view may be generated, so the viewership rate is the highest. If the time is within a certain time, it may be ignored. Such processing can be performed by the video editing unit 15 buffering the video delivered from the video acquisition unit 11.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a video editing result by the editing method example 1. Video A, Video B, Video C, Video D
When the audience rating changes as shown in FIG. 7A, the video (stream) generated by selecting the video having the highest audience rating at each time is as shown in FIG. . In the audience ratings shown in FIG. 4A, since the video A is the standard video at the beginning of the video distribution, the audience rating of the video A is 100%, and the audience ratings of the video B, the video C, and the video D. Is 0%
Has become.

[Example 2 of editing method] In this editing method, the video editing unit 15 integrates the audience ratings of the respective videos calculated by the audience rating calculating unit 14 for a certain period of time and at a time corresponding to the ratio of the accumulated audience ratings. Each image acquired by the image acquisition unit 11 is selected. Also in this case, if the time corresponding to the audience rating ratio is extremely short, this may be ignored.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a video editing result by the editing method example 2. Video A, Video B, Video C, Video D
When the audience rating of No. changes as shown in (a) of the same figure, the ratio of the cumulative audience ratings of video A, video B, video C, and video D at time T1 in the figure is 117: 49: 21: 13. Becomes Therefore, the video editing unit 15 selects each video at a time corresponding to this ratio, but the time to perform the video D becomes an extremely short time. Therefore, as shown in FIG. The image D is not selected. Similarly, time T2 in the figure
The ratio of the integrated audience ratings of video A, video B, video C, and video D is 57: 46: 58: 39. Therefore, the video editing unit 15 selects each video at a time corresponding to this ratio, as shown in FIG.

[Editing Method Example 3] In this editing method, the video editing unit 15 mainly selects a preset video, and selects the video only when another video exceeds a predetermined audience rating. Also in this case, if the time when the audience rating exceeds the predetermined value is extremely short, this may be ignored.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a video editing result according to the editing method example 3. Video A, Video B, Video C, Video D
When the audience rating of A changes as shown in (a) of the figure, the video editing unit 15 basically selects the video A as shown in (b) of the figure. Then, when the respective audience ratings of the video B, the video C, and the video D exceed 40%, the video is selected only during that period.

Here, the above-mentioned editing method examples will be compared. 4 (a), 5 (a), and 6 (a), the changes in the audience ratings of the respective videos show the same conversions in the respective drawings, but FIGS. 4 (b) and 5 It can be seen that the edited video images (streams) shown in (b) and FIG. 6 (b) are all different. That is, it is understood that the edited result has different characteristics due to the difference in the editing method.

In the above description, it was often the case that a video with a high audience rating was selected preferentially, but a completely different video can be generated by selecting a video with a medium or low audience rating. This is possible, and the editing method and the setting of the audience rating can be appropriately combined and used according to the purpose of the generated video.

Heretofore, the case where the image processing apparatus 1 distributes and edits a plurality of images shot by the plurality of cameras 2 has been described. However, the video processing device 1 can deliver a single video and allow the viewer to watch an arbitrary part thereof. In this case, the screen displayed on the web browser of the viewer is as shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the web browser when delivering a single video. As shown in the figure, the web browser 130 is provided with an entire display frame 131 for displaying the entire distributed video and a partial display frame 132 for displaying a part of the video. In addition, the partial display frame 132 zooms in / displays the displayed image.
A zoom operation button 133 for operating the zoom out and a direction operation button 134 for changing the display portion are arranged.

In this web browser 130, for example,
Wide display area (a panoramic view of the game field for sports broadcasting, a panoramic view of the venue for a lecture, etc.) as a single image
And a part thereof (a specific player or the like in the case of a sports broadcast, a lecturer or the like in the case of a lecture) is partially displayed in the display frame 132.

Even in the case of distributing such a video, the video processing device 1 edits the video based on the audience rating. Therefore, a method of calculating the audience rating when a single video is targeted will be described.

When a single video is distributed, the viewer will watch an arbitrary part of the video. Therefore, each viewer may watch a completely different video, and it becomes difficult to calculate the audience rating. Therefore, the video processing device 1
Then, the audience rating is calculated by one of the following two methods.

[Audit Rating Calculation Method 1] In this method, some of the viewers are set as pseudo cameramen, and the viewers are requested to view in the cameraman mode. For example, in the configuration shown in FIG. 8, the web browser 130-
Viewers 1, 130-2, and 130-3 are set as pseudo cameramen, and the web browser 130
-1, 130-2, 130-3 are operated in the cameraman mode.

The cameraman mode is a mode in which the viewer is viewing which part of the video image displayed in the overall display frame 131 is displayed, and the coordinates of the video image displayed in the partial display frame 132 (overall The selection information acquisition unit 13 of the video processing device 1 acquires the (coordinates in the display frame) and discloses it to other viewers.

In the example shown in FIG. 8, the web browser 13
The coordinates returned from 0-1 are video A, web browser 13
The coordinates returned from 0-2 are video B, web browser 13
The coordinates returned from 0-3 are image C. Also,
In the video processing device 1, the video distribution unit 12 can automatically track a specific person or the like as a track mode.
The coordinates generated as a result of this tracking will be referred to as image D. In such a state, other viewers may see the web browser 130-
4, 130-5 can be used to view the video,
Any of the image A, the image B, the image C, and the image D can be selected. Then, the selection information acquisition unit 13 acquires the selection information. Of course, the web browser 130-
Viewers using Nos. 4 and 130-5 have video A, video B,
You can view any part other than video C and video D, or you can view each of video A, video B, video C, and video D by changing the zoom ratio. Video A, Video B, Video C, Video D depending on the coordinates
The selection information is generated assuming that the closest one of the two is selected.

When the video is distributed using the cameraman mode, the video can be viewed on the above-mentioned web browser 30 or the like, as in the case of distributing a plurality of videos.

[Audit rating calculation method 2] This method does not use the cameraman mode as described above, but calculates the audience rating and the selected video based on the coordinates of the video viewed by all the viewers. In the case of this method, the selection information acquisition unit 13
The coordinate of the video displayed in the partial display frame 132 is acquired from each viewing device 3, and the audience rating calculation unit 14 calculates the audience rating and the selected image based on the coordinates.

The audience ratings and the selected videos are calculated by regarding the overlapping videos among the videos displayed in the partial display frame 132 of each viewing device 3 as the same video. For example,
As shown in FIG. 9A, the image displayed in the partial display frame 132 by the web browser 130-1 is A1, and the image displayed in the partial display frame 132 by the web browser 130-2 is A2. And In this case, as shown in FIG. 7B, the selected video A is determined from both of them, and the audience rating is calculated based on the number of viewers used for the determination.

As a method of determining the selected image, the method shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), when the image A1 and the image A2 overlap each other, a method (OR) of determining an area including one of them as the image A, and an image as shown in FIG. When A1 and video A2 overlap each other, a method of determining a region including both as video A (AN
There is D).

Since the viewer does not always watch the video at the same zoom ratio, it is possible to consider the zoom ratio of each video when determining the selection ratio. If OR is used as the method of determining the selected video without considering the zoom ratio, the video A becomes as shown in FIG. 11A. As a result, the video A2 is selected with respect to the video selected by the viewer. The impact is weakened. Similarly, if AND is used as the method of determining the selected video, the video A becomes as shown in FIG. 11B, but as a result, there is no effect on the selected video of the viewer who is viewing the video A2. Is equal to. On the other hand, if the zoom ratios of the selected images to be determined are set to the average of the two considering the zoom ratios of the images A1 and A2, if OR is used as the method of determining the selected images, As shown in FIG. 11C, if AND is used as the method for determining the selected image, the image A becomes as shown in FIG.

The zoom ratio of the selected image may be determined by weighting the zoom ratio of each image partially displayed in the display frame 132 by the viewer, or may be fixed. Now, the video processing device 1 edits and records the video based on the audience rating and the selected video (in the case of the audience rating calculation method 2) calculated in this way.
This is similar to the case where a plurality of videos are targeted as described above. However, when the recorded video is displayed on the web browser 30 or the like, a video in which the selected videos are rearranged is generated, but an arbitrary portion can be selected and viewed from a single video of the web browser 130 or the like. When displaying on a thing, only the coordinate information can be edited and the whole image can be recorded.

[0063]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a plurality of videos or one video that can be viewed by selecting an arbitrary part is distributed, the audience rating of each video is acquired and acquired. Based on the audience rating, editing is performed to rearrange a plurality of videos one after another to generate a video for recording, so that the editor's preference is met without imposing a heavy burden on the editor. It becomes possible to generate an image.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a video distribution system to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a video processing device 1.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a web browser.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a result of editing a video according to a first editing method.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a result of editing a video by an editing method example 2;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a result of editing a video by an editing method example 3;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a web browser when a single video is distributed.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration using a cameraman mode.

FIG. 9 is a diagram (1) for explaining a method of determining an audience rating and a selected video.

FIG. 10 is a diagram (2) for explaining a method of determining an audience rating and a selected video.

FIG. 11 is a diagram (3) for explaining a method of determining an audience rating and a selected video.

FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining a conventional video editing method.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Video processing device 2-1 to 2-4 camera 3-1 to 3-n Viewing device 11 Video acquisition unit 12 Video Distribution Department 13 Selection information acquisition unit 14 Audience rating calculator 15 Video editing department 16 Video recording section 30 display screen 31 Reduced display frame 32 Reduced display frame 33 Reduced display frame 34 Reduced display frame 35 display frame 36 Select button 130, 130-1 to 130-11 Web browser 131 Overall display frame 132 Partial display frame 133 Zoom operation button 13 4-way operation button

Claims (22)

[Claims] 1. A video processing method for editing video in time series to generate video data, wherein a plurality of viewers are allowed to view a selectable video group and the video selected by the plurality of viewers is viewed. Video processing characterized in that each of the ratings is calculated, one target video is selected from the video group based on the calculated audience rating, and the selected target video is rearranged in time series to generate video data. Method. 2. The image processing method according to claim 1, wherein the image group is a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras, and each of the plurality of images is selected by a plurality of viewers. . 3. The video group is one selectable video capable of selectively watching an arbitrary part, and the audience rating is calculated based on a partial video selected from the selectable videos. The image processing method according to claim 1, wherein: 4. The video processing method according to claim 3, wherein the audience rating is calculated based on pixels included in the partial images selected by each of a plurality of viewers. 5. The video processing method according to claim 1, wherein the video of interest is a video having the highest audience rating at each time point among the videos of the video group. 6. The target video is a video in which each video of the video group is selected by an amount corresponding to a ratio of audience ratings of each video within a fixed time. Video processing method. 7. The target video is a video that exceeds a preset audience rating at each time point among the videos in the video group, and if there is no video that exceeds the preset audience rating, The video processing method according to claim 1, wherein a video designated in advance among the videos of the video group is set as the video of interest. 8. A video processing device for editing video in time series to generate video data, a video distribution means for distributing a selectable video group to a plurality of viewers, and a video group distributed by the video distribution means. Of the selection information acquisition means for acquiring the selection information of the video selected by the viewer, based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition means,
An audience rating calculation unit that calculates an audience rating of each image of the image group, and selects one target image from the image group based on the audience rating calculated by the audience rating calculation unit, and selects the selected target image A video processing device, comprising: a video editing unit that rearranges the video data into a series to generate video data. 9. The video distribution means distributes a reduced video of a plurality of videos taken by a plurality of cameras as the video group, and sends it to each viewer based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition means. 9. The video processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the video selected by the viewer is distributed. 10. The video distribution means distributes, as the video group, one selectable video capable of selectively selecting and viewing an arbitrary part, and each of the viewing videos based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquiring means. 9. The video processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the viewer delivers the partial video selected from the selectable video to the viewer. 11. The audience rating calculation means specifies a partial video selected from the selectable video by each viewer based on the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition means, and the overlapping state of the specified partial images. 11. The video processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the audience rating of each partial image is calculated based on. 12. The video processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the audience rating calculation means calculates the audience rating of each partial image based on the pixels included in the partial video. 13. The video processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the video editing means selects a video having the highest audience rating at each time point as the video of interest from among the videos of the video group. 14. The video editing means selects each video of the video group as the video of interest for a period of time corresponding to a ratio of an audience rating of each video at regular time intervals. 8. The video processing device according to 8. 15. The video editing means selects, as the video of interest, a video that exceeds a preset audience rating at each point of time among the videos of the video group.
9. The video processing device according to claim 8, wherein when there is no video exceeding the set audience rating, a video designated in advance among the videos in the video group is selected as the video of interest. 16. A video processing program that causes a computer to execute a process of time-sequentially editing video to generate video data, while delivering a selectable video group to a plurality of viewers,
The viewer ratings of the videos selected by the plurality of viewers are calculated, one target video is selected from the video group based on the calculated viewer ratings, and the selected target videos are rearranged in time series. A video processing program characterized by generating video data. 17. The video processing program according to claim 16, wherein the video group is a plurality of videos captured by a plurality of cameras, and a plurality of viewers are allowed to select each of the plurality of videos. . 18. The video group is one selectable video capable of selectively viewing and selecting an arbitrary part, and a part of the selectable image is made to be selected by a plurality of viewers. Item 16. The video processing program according to Item 16. 19. The video processing program according to claim 18, wherein the audience rating is calculated based on pixels included in the partial image selected by each of a plurality of viewers. 20. The video processing program according to claim 16, wherein the video having the highest audience rating at each time point is selected as the video of interest from among the videos of the video group. 21. The method according to claim 16, wherein each video of the video group is selected as the video of interest for a period of time corresponding to a ratio of an audience rating of each video at regular time intervals. The described video processing program. 22. Of the videos in the video group, a video that exceeds a preset audience rating at each time point is selected as the video of interest, and if there is no video that exceeds the preset audience rating, 17. The video processing program according to claim 16, wherein a video designated in advance is selected from among the videos of the video group as the video of interest.