Hitachi, Ltd.

Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Takehiro Fujita

Takafumi Miyatake

Akio Nagasaka

Shigeki Nagaya

Kazuaki Tanaka

Katsumi Taniguchi

Kazuaki Iwamura

Tsuneya Kurihara

Katumi Taniguchi

Takashi Nomura

Keiichi Yoshioka

Shigeru Kakumoto

Yoshinori Kitahara

Shigeru Yabuuchi

Yasuei Nomoto

Takefumi Miyatake

A method and a medium for recording video information make it possible to retrieve particular scenes quickly based on representative images alone, which are chosen by taking the contents of images and sounds into account. The method for recording video information comprises a first step of storing video, a second step of dividing the video into segments, and extracting the top frame number of each segment, a third step of extracting the frame number of the frame having the maximum feature amount in each segment, and a fourth step of storing the frame numbers extracted by the second and third step in the first step.

Method and medium for recording video information

An economical surveillance apparatus robust to an environmental change includes an input unit for inputting images in a time series, a background image memory unit for storing a plurality of input images, a difference image memory unit for calculating and storing difference degree between a plurality of background images of the background image memory unit and an image inputted afresh, and a judging unit for judging an existence/absence of an invading object by utilizing the value of the difference degree of the difference image memory unit. This surveillance apparatus can automatically register a plurality of background images from a camera image. Since the background images that are no longer used are automatically erased, the drop of detection speed and detection sensitivity can be prevented.

Surveillance apparatus and recording medium recorded surveillance program

A digital camera has an image sensor, and an optical system for focusing a scene on the image sensor. A zooming system is used for changing a zoom rate of the scene that is focused on the image sensor. By operating the zooming system during the recording of a series of images, each of the images has a different zoom rate and therefore a different level of detail and field of view. The images are combined to form one still image of super high resolution. The zoom rate between images is detected by using horizontal and vertical pixel intensity value projection distributions in both forward and backward prediction methods. Horizontal and vertical candidate projection distributions that are correlated to a range of possible zoom rates are compared with the horizontal and vertical projection distributions of the former and current images being processed to determine a least error match that is selected as the zoom rate between the adjacent images. Using the image to image zoom rate, a scaling factor is determined that is used for scaling each current image before overwriting the current image over the former images previously written to the image buffer. In this way, the detail of each image in the series is written to the image buffer and a super high resolution, wide angle still image is formed that can be stored and displayed.

Super high resolution camera

For image recording/reproduction in a monitoring system, a monitoring image signal as inputted is converted into a plurality of time-serial digitized monitoring image frames to be stored temporarily in a first storage area. From the plurality of digitized monitoring image frames stored in the first storage area, a plurality of monitoring image frames relevant to at least one type of concerned event for monitoring are extracted to be stored in a second storage area. A monitored event database having a data structure comprised of elements each containing information concerning a storing location of relevant monitoring image frame in the second storage area and information concerning attributes of the relevant monitoring image frame for each of the monitoring image frames stored in the second storage area is generated to be stored in a third storage area. In response to a perusal request issued by user by using a WEB browser and sent via a network, the monitored event database is searched for acquiring a storing location of plural monitoring image frames relevant to the perusal request in the second storage area to thereby select from the second storage area a plurality of monitoring image frames relevant to the perusal request. The selected plural monitoring image frames are converted into HTML data to be sent to a display device connected via a network to be displayed on a display device in a two-dimensional layout or in the form of time-serial animation.

Image recording/reproducing apparatus in monitor system

An envelope arithmetic device for determining arithmetically an envelope of a sound signal waveform associated with video image signals inputted on a time-serial basis, a sound level threshold setting device for setting previously a threshold value of sound level for values of the above-mentioned envelope and a start/end point detecting device for detecting points at which the above-mentioned threshold level and the above-mentioned envelope intersect each other as the start and end points of the sound segment are provided for thereby arithmetically determining an envelope of a sound waveform associated with the video for detecting as the start point of the sound segment a point at which the value of the envelope exceeds the threshold of the sound level while detecting as the end point a point at which the value of the envelope becomes smaller than the threshold value. The interval of the video corresponding to the start point and the end point is registered in terms of a number identify a frame constituting a part of the motion pictures.

Method and device for detecting starting and ending points of sound segment in video

A method and apparatus for displaying a representative image corresponding to a shot of a duration within a specified range included in a plurality of shots of a moving image. The moving image includes a plurality of successive frames each having an image and each shot includes a plurality of the successive frames. In the invention a plurality of shot change points are sequentially detected from the moving image. The shot change points represent points between a pair of frames where images of a preceding shot and images of a succeeding shot have changed. Thereafter a detection is performed to determine whether a duration of a shot between a preceding shot change point and a succeeding shot change point is within the specified range. A representative image corresponding to the shot having a duration within the specified range is displayed along with duration time information representing the duration of the shot. A reduced image from the shot can be displayed as the representative image and the number of detected shots having a duration within the specified range can be reduced according to preset conditions.

Method and apparatus for detecting and displaying a representative image of a shot of short duration in a moving image

Only a video cut (containing a frame) designated by a user is automatically and correctly extracted directly from a video image under playing operation at high speed. A judgement is made as to whether or not the frame of the video image is designated by the user. When such a user designation is made, a detection is made of a change point in the video cut containing this designated frame (reverse playing direction, forward playing direction). Under such a condition that a frame image immediately before this change point is displayed, the playing operation of the video image is brought into a pause state. Accordingly, only the video cut desired by the user can be extracted during a single playing operation of the video image, and the video image can be edited in a high efficiency.

Control method for detecting change points in motion picture images and for stopping reproduction thereof and control system for monitoring picture images utilizing the same

A system for detecting a point of change between video shots from a video having a plurality of succeeding frames. The system includes video playback apparatus for playing a video chronologically one frame at a time, and a display for displaying the video. The a processing device for calculating a feature quantity of video image data for each frame, determining a first correlation coefficient between a feature quantity of a current frame and a feature quantity calculated from an immediately preceding frame and determining a second correlation coefficient between the feature quantity of the current frame and a feature quantity of at least two frames preceding the current frame, and indicating on the display a point of change between video shots when the first correlation coefficient and the second correlation coefficient are out of predetermined allowable ranges. The correlation coefficients of each frame is stored and can be used by the processing device to dynamically change a reference used for detecting a point of change between video shots. The change in the reference is performed based on the stored correlation coefficients or feature quantities of past frames.

Method and apparatus for detecting a point of change in a moving image

In order to reduce the load on the operator in monitoring a moving object in the moving picture signal supplied from the imaging device, the signal is displayed in one region of the display device. The moving route of the moving object which has entered the view of the imaging device is extracted, based on the signal. The first image data showing the image of a moving route of an extracted moving object is generated, and the second image data showing the image of the moving object is generated based on the signal. The overlapped image of the image of the moving route and the image of the moving object is displayed in another region of the display device together with the extraction time of the image of the moving object. The processing above is repeated to other moving objects which enter the view later on. The overlapped images for different moving images thus extracted are displayed adjacent to each other in the region.

Method of displaying moving object for enabling identification of its moving route, display system using the same, and program recording medium therefor

Method and apparatus for detecting and displaying a representative image

Method of displaying moving object for enabling identification of its

Control method for detecting change points in motion picture images and

This invention relates to a graphic data processing system, and is more particularly directed to provide an easy-to-operate system and displaying method thereof, for generating scene data from map data and retrieving and displaying attributes containing guide information of ground objects in a scene. In the first place, when a visual point is directed from above to below, a planar map is displayed, and as the visual point shifts in a horizontal direction, a three-dimensional scene image is generated and displayed from a map. Secondly, a three-dimensional window is displayed in a display, and graphic data is displayed inside the window.

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Kokubunji, Japan

Takehiro Fujita