Patent ID: 6295086
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G11B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A device operative within a computer for processing digital moving image data, comprising:image data extracting means for receiving digital moving image data transmitted from a video recorder to said computer in packets formatted in accordance with the IEEE 1394 serial bus standard, determining which one of a plurality of television formats the digital moving image data conforms to, and extracting from the image data a plurality of still images, each of said still images represented by frame data of an image frame; andimage file generating means for generating a plurality of data files, each corresponding to one of said still images, each said data file including the extracted frame data and file management data corresponding to the extracted frame data, wherein said file management data includes: detailed format information for indicating said determined television format corresponding to said digital moving image data; file identification information for identifying said data file; file version information for indicating a version of said data file; data attribute information for specifying preselected data attributes; file size information for indicating length of said data file; data size information for indicating length of the extracted frame data in said data file; and data offset information defining an offset between a data area and a header area of said data file.