Patent ID: 11962809
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A processing apparatus for generating a still image file including a media data portion and a metadata portion, the metadata portion being different from the media data portion, the processing apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory storing executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processing apparatus to perform operations including:
obtaining identification information for each of media items, a first media item corresponding to a still image and a plurality of second media items corresponding to a plurality of partial areas in the still image;
obtaining description information comprising parameters relating to the plurality of partial areas;
obtaining association information for associating each identification information of the plurality of second media items with at least one parameter in the description information, and
obtaining item reference information which represents, by using the identification information, a reference between the first media item and the plurality of second media items, and
generating the still image file including the identification information, the description information, the association information, and the item reference information in a ‘meta’ box of the metadata portion, and data of the plurality of partial areas of the still image in the media data portion.