Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Tomio Kishimoto

Yoshinobu Tonomura

Akihito Akutsu

Tsutomu Horikoshi

Yukinobu Taniguchi

Gen Suzuki

Hideki Koike

Hisashi Kasahara

A video signal, replay by a video player, is subjected to image processing by a calculation control part of a video image searching device to calculate the image quality value and another feature value. An image whose image quality satisfies a predetermined condition and whose feature value matches a predetermined condition is detected as an image in which an event has occurred. Such images are printed on an output paper together with associated addition information. A main control part of a video image access device reads out the additional information on the output paper by a scanner and effects control via a video control part to search the image corresponding to that information by a video player.

Video image search method and system using the same

Image information units, related with one another in the order of their magnitudes defined for each of a plurality of properties of each image, are prestored in an image information storage and management device. All image information units adjoiningly related by their properties with a main image being displayed on a display are read out of the image information storage and management device, and contracted images of the read-out image information units are displayed as navigators on the display screen, together with the main image.

Method and apparatus for creating and displaying navigators for guiding

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Yokohama, Japan

Tomio Kishimoto