JP2006332720A - Digest creating apparatus and program for digest creating processing - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract important scenes relating to victory or defeat from a sports program of television broadcast, and then create a digest. <P>SOLUTION: A control unit 3 analyzes audio information of video audio information, analyzes video information of the video audio information, and sets a hit expectation point, on the basis of a result of at least any one of the analysises. Then, the control unit 3 determines the degree of importance, on the basis of a result of analysis of the audio information of a predetermined time after the hit expectation point, and creates a digest of the video audio information, in accordance with the determined degree of importance. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a digest creation device and a digest creation processing program, and more particularly, to a digest creation device and a digest creation processing program for creating a digest of a television broadcast sports program.

In a sports program such as baseball in television broadcasting, an important video scene is extracted to create a digest, and a user's convenience is achieved by shortening a reproduction time. For example, in a proposed method and system for extracting highlights from an audio signal of a sporting event, a set of features is extracted from the audio signal of the sporting event and consists of applause, scissors, batting ball, music, voice and voice with music Features that have been extracted using an entropy hidden Markov model according to the class selected from the group, and adjacent sets of features that are classified in exactly the same way, grouped together as applause or spear The portion of the audio signal corresponding to the group of and having a duration greater than a predetermined threshold is selected as the highlight. (See Patent Document 1)
JP 2004-258659 A

However, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, a group of features classified as applause or scissors is selected as a highlight among the group consisting of applause, scissors, hitting balls, music, speech, and speech with music. Even if a popular batter enters the box as the next batter, or even if a popular pitcher goes up to the mound as a relief or stopper, there will be applause and jealousy from the audience, so there is no scene related to the game May be selected as a highlight. Alternatively, there may be applause and jealousy in commercials inserted into sports programs, and such commercial scenes may be selected as highlights.
An object of the present invention is to solve such a conventional problem, and it is an object of the present invention to create digest data by extracting only important scenes related to a game from a television broadcast sports program. To do.

  The digest creation device according to claim 1 is at least one of audio analysis means for analyzing audio information of video / audio information, video analysis means for analyzing video information of video / audio information, audio analysis means, and video analysis means. Expected hitting point setting means for setting expected hitting points based on one analysis result, importance determining means for determining importance based on the analysis result of audio information for a predetermined time after expected hitting points, and determined importance And a digest creating means for creating a digest of the video / audio information according to the above.

  In the digest creation device according to claim 1, as described in claim 2, the hitting expectation point setting means sets the time point when the voice analysis means has analyzed that it is a hitting sound or a catching sound as an expected hitting point. It may be configured.

  3. The digest creation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the hitting expectation point setting means analyzes that the video analysis means is a video from a center camera of a baseball field, and the voice analysis means is a hitting sound. Or you may make it the structure which sets the time of analyzing that it is a catching sound as a hit | damage expectation point.

  2. The digest creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the hitting expectation point setting means is a predetermined time retroactive from the time when the video analysis means analyzes that the video from the center camera of the baseball field has ended. You may make it the structure which sets a hit | damage expectation point.

  In the digest creation device according to claim 1, as described in claim 5, the sound analysis means may be configured to analyze the sound information by the differential sound of the stereo broadcast.

  In the digest creation apparatus according to claim 1, as described in claim 6, the speech analysis means may be configured to analyze speech information by calculating likelihood of a hidden Markov model.

  The digest creation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the video analysis means analyzes the video from the center camera of the baseball field based on the color arrangement. .

  5. The digest creation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the video analysis means analyzes the video from the center camera of the baseball field based on a color histogram. .

  5. The digest creation apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the video analysis means analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on a boundary line between the wall and the ground. It may be.

A program for digest creation processing according to claim 10 is stored in a computer.
Step A for analyzing the audio information of the video / audio information, Step B for analyzing the video information of the video / audio information, Step C for setting the expected hit point based on the analysis result of at least one of Step A and Step B, Then, step D for determining the importance based on the analysis result of the audio information for a predetermined time after the expected hit point is executed, and step E for creating a digest of the video and audio information according to the determined importance.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 10, as described in claim 11, step C is configured to set a point of time when step A is analyzed as a hitting sound or a catching sound as an expected hit point. May be.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 11, as described in claim 12, step C analyzes that step B is an image from a center camera of a baseball field, and step A is a hitting sound or catching ball You may make it the structure which sets the time of analyzing that it is a sound as a hit | damage expectation point.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 10, as described in claim 13, the step C is expected to hit a predetermined time backward from the time when the step B analyzed that the video from the center camera of the baseball field was completed. You may make it the structure which sets a point.

  In the digest creation processing program according to the tenth aspect, as described in the fourteenth aspect, the step A may be configured to analyze the audio information using the differential sound of the stereo broadcast.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 10, as described in claim 15, step A may be configured to analyze the speech information by calculating the likelihood of a hidden Markov model.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 12 or 13, as described in claim 16, step B is configured to analyze the video from the center camera of the baseball field based on the color arrangement. Good.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 12 or 13, as described in claim 17, step B is configured to analyze the video from the center camera of the baseball field based on a color histogram. Good.

  In the digest creation processing program according to claim 12 or 13, as described in claim 18, the step B is analyzed based on a boundary line between a wall and a ground as an image from a center camera of a baseball field. It may be configured.

  According to the digest creation device and digest creation processing program of the present invention, it is possible to extract digest data by extracting only important scenes related to the game from sports programs of television broadcasting. It is done.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a digest creation apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a digest creation device according to the embodiment. In FIG. 1, a tuner 1 receives a reception signal of a channel in accordance with a channel selection signal input from the control unit 3 by a channel selection operation of the interface 2 from a high-frequency reception signal of a television broadcast received from an antenna. Is converted to an intermediate frequency received signal, filtered, etc., and output to the decoder 4. The decoder 4 performs an AD conversion process and an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) process on the received signal input from the tuner 1, decodes the decoded signal, and outputs the decoded video information to the display unit 5. Information is output to a sound system (not shown).
Further, the decoder 4 outputs the decoded video information and audio information to the encoder 6 according to the recording command signal input from the control unit 10 by the recording operation of the interface 1. The encoder 6 stores the video information and audio information input from the decoder 4 in a storage unit 7 such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive Device) in a state where the video information and the audio information are encoded and compressed.
The decoder 4 reads out the video information and audio information of the designated program stored in the storage unit 7 in accordance with the reproduction command signal input from the control unit 10 by the normal reproduction operation of the interface 1, and again Decrypt and output to the display unit 5 and the sound system.

    Further, the decoder 4 reads out the video information and audio information of the designated program stored in the storage unit 7 in accordance with the digest creation command signal input from the control unit 10 by the digest creation operation of the interface 1. The data is decrypted again and output to the digest creation unit 8. The digest creation unit 8 performs HMM (Hidden Markov Model) data 9 learned by extracting features from MFCC (Melscale Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients) or the like from the differential speech of many types of speech information input from the decoder 4. The video information is analyzed to generate digest information of the video information and audio information, and the digest information is stored in the digest information storage unit 10. In response to the digest reproduction command signal input from the control unit 10 by the digest creation operation of the interface 1, the decoder 4 performs video information and audio information of the digest information from the designated programs stored in the storage unit 7. Are decoded and output to the display unit 5 and the sound system.

  Next, the operation of the digest creation device of FIG. 1 is based on the flowcharts of FIGS. 2 to 4, the tables of FIGS. 5 and 6, the diagram of the waveform of audio information of FIG. 7, the screens of FIGS. I will explain. A TV broadcast reception signal is input from the antenna (step SA1), and it is determined whether or not the program ends (step SA2). When the program ends, the process returns to the main flow. When the program does not end, the decoder 4 performs decoding processing (step SA3) and executes digest information extraction processing (step SA4). Then, the extracted digest information is stored in the digest information storage unit 10 (step SA5). Next, the digest information stored in the digest information storage unit 10 is encoded and encoded by the encoder 6 (step SA6), and the encoded digest information is written to the HDD serving as the storage unit 7 (step SA7). The process proceeds to step SA2.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the digest information extraction process in step SA4 in FIG. First, difference audio is calculated by subtracting right channel audio information from left channel audio information (step SB1). Next, it is detected by video analysis whether the video information is a video from the center camera (step SB2). As the video analysis, for example, it is analyzed that the video is from the center camera of the baseball field based on the color arrangement. FIG. 8A is an example showing an image from the center camera. In FIG. 8 (1), an area C1 which is a range including the pitcher's mound and a range including the home plate is a portion where there is no lawn and the soil is exposed, and is brown or dark brown. Area C2 is a lawn portion and is almost yellowish green. The area C3 is a wall portion, and is flat gray when there is no advertisement, and is colorful with various primary colors when there is an advertisement. In addition, since area C is a spectator seat, it has a rather complicated color. Since the image of the center camera has such a color arrangement, it can be determined whether the current image is from the center camera or another camera. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8 (2), an average value is calculated by dividing the video screen into a plurality of images, and DCT (discrete) is applied to the luminance component (Y) and the color difference components (Cr, Cb). Cosine transform) to analyze the statistical properties of moving images.
Alternatively, based on the color histogram, it is analyzed that the video is from the center camera of the baseball field. For example, according to the video in FIG. 8 (1), the ratio of the area corresponding to the color of the wall, soil, and lawn to the entire screen is as shown in FIGS. 9 (1), (2), and (3), respectively. Therefore, it is determined that the video that matches this value is the video from the center camera.
Or it analyzes that it is a picture from the center camera of a baseball field based on the boundary line of a wall and the ground. For example, the histogram generated by extracting the horizontal edge from the video of FIG. 8A and projecting it in the horizontal direction has a high value b at the position of the boundary a between the wall and the ground as shown in FIG. Therefore, it is determined that the video having this value b at the position where the vertical direction of the screen is divided into about 6: 5 is the video from the center camera.

  If it is determined in step SB3 in FIG. 3 that the video is from the center camera, it is a hitting sound or a catching sound area that is an expected hit point from among a variety of types of audio difference information. Is determined (step SB4), and likelihood calculation is performed using the HMM data 9 learned by performing feature extraction of the hitting sound (or catching sound) with MFCC or the like (step SB5). Next, the position on the time axis of the hitting sound (or catching sound) is determined (step SB6). FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a waveform indicating the volume of the differential sound over time. In this graph, the position t0 on the time axis of the waveform D of the hitting sound is determined, and the likelihood of the important scene is calculated using the HMM data 9 for the difference voice in the range from t0 to the predetermined time T (step SB5). ). FIG. 5 is a table showing whether the scene is an important scene or an unnecessary scene, and FIG. 6 is a table showing a model name for each scene. In FIG. 6, the model name Q is unnecessary.

For example, in FIG. 6, the goro-out model name G corresponds to the waveform of FIG. 7A, and the cheering is calmed immediately after the hitting sound, and the cheering is raised earlier than the fly. Also, the model name Q of the ball in FIG. 6 corresponds to FIG. 7 (B), and the support of the noise continues after the catching sound. In the waveforms of (A) and (B) in FIG. 7, the cheering and the sounding object have different waveform spectra, so that they can be easily distinguished.
Although not shown in the figure, even when the waveform of the catching sound is extracted instead of the waveform D of the hitting sound, in the period of the predetermined time T from the position on the time axis of the waveform of the catching sound, Analyze the waveform corresponding to the model name of the four dead balls.

  After calculating the HMM likelihood of the important scene in step SB7 in FIG. 3, it is determined whether or not the scene from the hitting sound (or catching sound) to the predetermined time T is an important scene (step SB8). If the scene is an important scene, the start time and end time corresponding to the scene from immediately before the hitting sound (or catching sound) to a certain time are registered in the digest information storage unit 10 as digest information (step SB9). . Then, the process returns to the main routine.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the reproduction process. When the digest command is input from the interface 2 (step SC1), the control unit 3 reads the digest information from the digest information storage unit 10 (step SC2), and determines whether or not the program ends (step SC3). If it is not the end of the program, it is determined whether or not the read digest information is an important scene (step SC3). That is, it is determined whether or not the elapsed time of the program data stored in the storage unit 7 has reached the start time read from the digest information storage unit 10. If it is an important scene, the video information of the scene is decoded (step SC5), video information from the start time to the end time of the scene is output to the display unit 5, and audio information is output to the sound system. (Step SC6). Then, the process proceeds to step SC3. On the other hand, if the scene is not an important scene, the scene is skipped without being reproduced (step SC7), and the process proceeds to step SC3. In step SC3, when the program end is reached, the process returns to the main routine.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the control unit 3 analyzes the audio information of the video / audio information, analyzes the video information of the video / audio information, and based on at least one of the analysis results, Set. Then, the importance is determined based on the analysis result of the audio information for a predetermined time after the expected hit point, and a digest of the video / audio information is created according to the determined importance.
Therefore, digest data can be created by extracting only important scenes related to the game from sports programs broadcast on television.

In this case, the control unit 3 sets a point of time when the hitting sound or the catching sound is analyzed as an expected hit point. Furthermore, it is analyzed that the video is from the center camera of the baseball stadium, and the point in time when it is analyzed that it is a hitting sound or a catching sound is set as an expected hit point. Then, an expected hit point is set retroactively from the time when the video from the center camera of the baseball field is analyzed.
In this case, the audio information is analyzed using the differential audio of the stereo broadcast. Furthermore, speech information is analyzed by likelihood calculation of a hidden Markov model (HMM). Furthermore, it analyzes that it is the image | video from the center camera of a baseball field based on arrangement | positioning of a color. Alternatively, based on the color histogram, the video is analyzed from the center camera of the baseball field. Or it analyzes that it is a picture from a center camera of a baseball field based on a boundary line between a wall and a ground.

  In each of the above embodiments, the invention of an apparatus that executes a digest creation processing program stored in advance in a non-volatile memory (for example, the storage unit 7) in the apparatus has been described, but a flexible disk (FD), A program recorded on an external storage medium such as a CD, MD, or memory card is installed in a non-volatile memory, or a program downloaded from a network such as the Internet is installed in the memory, and the program is executed by the control unit. It is also possible to do. In this case, the invention of the program and the invention of the recording medium on which the program is recorded can be realized.

  That is, the digest creation processing program according to the present invention includes a step A for analyzing the audio information of the video / audio information, a step B for analyzing the video information of the video / audio information, and the steps A and B. Step C for setting an expected hit point based on at least one of the analysis results, Step D for determining an importance level based on an analysis result of audio information for a predetermined time after the expected hit point, and video according to the determined importance level Step E of creating a digest of voice information is executed.

In step C, a point in time when the step A is analyzed to be a hitting sound or a catching sound is set as an expected hit point.
In step C, the step B is analyzed as a video from a center camera of a baseball field, and the point in time when the step A is analyzed as a hitting sound or a catching sound is set as an expected hit point.
In Step C, an expected hitting point is set retroactively from the time point when Step B analyzes that the video from the center camera of the baseball field has ended.
In step A, audio information is analyzed using differential audio of stereo broadcasting.
In step A, speech information is analyzed by calculating the likelihood of a hidden Markov model.
The step B is analyzed based on the color arrangement as a video from the center camera of the baseball field.
The step B is analyzed based on the color histogram as an image from a baseball field center camera.
The step B is analyzed based on the boundary line between the wall and the ground as a video from the center camera of the baseball field.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the digest production apparatus in embodiment of this invention. The flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the video recording process of the digest production apparatus of FIG. The flowchart of the digest information extraction process in FIG. The flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the reproduction | regeneration processing of the digest production apparatus of FIG. The table | surface which shows the importance of the video information in embodiment. The table | surface which shows the correspondence of the importance of image | video information and model name in embodiment. The figure which shows the waveform of the audio | voice information in embodiment. (1) is a figure which shows the image | video from the center camera in embodiment, (2) is a figure which shows the state which divided | segmented (1) into several screens. In the color histogram of FIG. 8 (1), (1) is a wall, (2) is soil, and (3) is a lawn color histogram. The figure which shows the histogram of the boundary line of the wall of FIG. 8 (1), and a ground.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Tuner 2 Interface 3 Control part 4 Decoder 5 Display part 6 Encoder 7 Storage part 8 Digest production | generation part 9 HMM data 10 Digest information storage part

Claims (18)

Audio analysis means for analyzing audio information of video and audio information;
Video analysis means for analyzing video information of the video and audio information;
Expected hitting point setting means for setting an expected hitting point based on the analysis result of at least one of the voice analysis means and the video analysis means;
Importance determination means for determining importance based on the analysis result of audio information for a predetermined time after the expected hit point,
A digest creating means for creating a digest of the video and audio information according to the determined importance,
A digest creating apparatus comprising:   The digest creation device according to claim 1, wherein the expected hit point setting unit sets a point in time when the voice analysis unit analyzes that it is a hitting sound or a catching sound as an expected hit point.   The hitting expectation point setting means uses the time when the video analysis means analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball stadium and the voice analysis means analyzes that it is a hitting sound or a catching sound as an expected hitting point. The digest creation device according to claim 2, wherein the digest creation device is set.   2. The expected hit point setting unit sets the expected hit point a predetermined time after the time when the video analysis unit analyzes that the video from the center camera of the baseball field has ended. Digest creation device.   The digest creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the voice analysis unit analyzes voice information based on differential audio of stereo broadcasting.   The digest creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the speech analysis unit analyzes speech information by likelihood calculation of a hidden Markov model.   The digest creation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the video analysis means analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on a color arrangement.   The digest creation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the video analysis means analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on a color histogram.   The digest creation device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the video analysis means analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on a boundary line between a wall and the ground. On the computer,
Analyzing the audio information of the video and audio information;
Analyzing the video information of the video and audio information;
Step C for setting an expected hit point based on the analysis result of at least one of Step A and Step B;
Step D for determining the importance based on the analysis result of the audio information for a predetermined time after the expected hit point;
Creating a digest of the video and audio information according to the determined importance,
Digest creation process program that executes.   11. The digest creation processing program according to claim 10, wherein the step C sets the point in time when the step A is analyzed as a hitting sound or a catching sound as an expected hit point.   In the step C, the step B is analyzed as a video from a center camera of a baseball field, and the point in time when the step A is analyzed as a hitting sound or a catching sound is set as an expected hit point. The digest creation processing program according to claim 11.   11. The digest creation process according to claim 10, wherein the step C sets the expected hit point a predetermined time back from the time when the step B analyzed that the video from the center camera of the baseball field has ended. Program.   The digest creation processing program according to claim 10, wherein the step A analyzes audio information using differential audio of stereo broadcasting.   The digest creation processing program according to claim 10, wherein the step A analyzes speech information by likelihood calculation of a hidden Markov model.   The digest creation processing program according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the step B analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on the color arrangement.   14. The digest creation processing program according to claim 12, wherein the step B analyzes that the video is from a center camera of a baseball field based on a color histogram.   The digest creation processing program according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the step B is analyzed based on a boundary line between a wall and a ground, and is an image from a center camera of a baseball stadium.

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