Patent ID: 8350892
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A playback control apparatus comprising: a memory; a recording unit configured to record, in association with a panoramic image generated by assembling a plurality of image data items converted from a plurality of images captured during a time period from when a panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended and input through a lens system, one of an imaging direction of the panoramic image during the time period from when the panoramic image capture is started to when the panoramic image capture is ended and coordinate information of an object detected by extracting features of the panoramic image; an imaging direction detecting unit configured to detect the imaging direction, that excludes amounts of movement greater than or equal to a predetermined movement value and that encodes the detected imaging direction into codes specifying a plurality of directions, the plurality of directions being upward, downward, left, and right directions; and a scroll direction determining unit configured to determine a scroll direction in which the panoramic image is played back on the basis of one of the imaging direction and the coordinate information.