Sony Corporation

Satoshi Tabuchi

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Toru Miyake

Masaharu Suzuki

Masaaki Isozaki

Hideo Miyamaki

Asako Tamura

Hiroshi Hibi

Hideharu Fujiyama

Shuji Kurashige

Atsuhiko Fujimoto

Thumbnails are used, facilitating any operation on an object that changes from time to time as in a moving picture, thereby to prevent failure in capturing important objects. The present invention provides an apparatus for processing images that includes a moving body detecting unit that detects an object from moving picture information input and checks the object for identity, thereby to determine whether the object is contained in two or more consecutive frames, a thumbnail displaying unit that displays any objects that have appeared within a prescribed period, as thumbnails extracted from a representative frame, on the basis of object information detected by the moving body detecting unit, an operation input unit that receives an operation input made when one of the thumbnails displayed by the thumbnail displaying unit is selected, and a moving picture displaying unit that displays a moving picture that contains the object identified by the selected thumbnail related to the operation input received by the operation input unit.

Apparatus for processing images, apparatus for processing reproduced images, method of processing images, and method of processing reproduced images

An information creating method comprising the steps of: recording moving picture/audio information obtained from a moving picture/audio input apparatus; recording pieces of still picture information displayed on a plurality of displays connected to a network; and, when pieces of said still picture information are recorded, creating a reproduction management list of said pieces of still picture information that correspond to said moving picture/audio information. It is possible to chronologically grasp from the reproduction management list when and in which file name the information has been displayed on each of the displays and, when contents represented in an HTML format etc. are reproduced, it is possible to easily select a display pattern in which pieces of information are to be reproduced on the same screen, thus displaying pieces of still picture information one and all on a split screen as inserted therein.

Information creating method information creating apparatus and network information processing system

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Tabuchi