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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2011
Hironao Ito, Kawasaki, JP;
Hironao Ito, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To present relevant information about an object of interest to a viewer in an appropriate timing based on the display state of objects that appear in a video image. A video image processing apparatusprocesses the additional information including content data and relevant information about the respective objects. A display feature information calculation unitacquires frame data indicating the display state of an object to be displayed in each frame constituting video data and calculates display feature information about the object to be displayed in each frame. A frame evaluation unitevaluates a frame using an evaluation criteria relating to the degree of attention of the object within a frame based on the calculated display feature information. A display timing determination unitdetermines a frame at which displaying relevant information about the object is to be started in accordance with the frame evaluation result. A display data generation unitgenerates data for displaying relevant information about an object, and a superimpose unitsuperimposes the data with video data, and output the superimposed data to a display unit