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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2004
Hidetomo Sohma, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Tojo, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Itoh, Okasa, JP;
Masafumi Shimotashiro, Osaka, JP;
Tadashi Nakamura, Nara, JP;
Hidetomo Sohma, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Tojo, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Itoh, Okasa, JP;
Masafumi Shimotashiro, Osaka, JP;
Tadashi Nakamura, Nara, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
For multiple moving-image recorded on a storage medium, one piece of meta-data or each of multiple pieces of meta-data recorded for a part or all of the moving-image is managed by meta-data indices. A meta-data index keeps invalidity information indicating whether a piece of meta-data is going to be invalid and validity information indicating validity of the current piece of meta-data in the same form, when operations such as editing and processing are performed on a part or all of a moving-image that is an object of a piece of meta-data. When cutting-out occurs on a section of a moving-image that is an object of a piece of meta-data and the piece of meta-data cannot be recalculated, the invalidity information is copied to the validity information. In this manner, a meta-data added to the moving-image can be adapted and be used after the moving-image is edited.