Patent ID: 6411339
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A system for spatio-temporally integrating/managing a plurality of videos, comprising:an image data string memory portion for reading video data to save video data as data string; a camcorder operation condition detecting portion for reading the data string from the image data string memory portion and detecting camcorder operation condition information including camcorder on/off information and camcorder operating information; a video splitting portion for splitting videos of the data string into respective shots based on the camcorder on/off information; a subject/background separating portion for separating a subject and a background every frame of the videos by using the camcorder operating information and physical feature properties; a subject motion information extracting portion for correlating subject information separated every frame between frames; a video taken space resynthesizing portion for resynthesizing video taken spaces from which the videos are picked up, based on the camcorder operating information and the background separated every frame; a shot-to-shot relation calculating portion for calculating spatial shot-to-shot relations between a plurality of video taken spaces, which are resynthesized by the video taken space resynthesizing portion respectively, based on a plurality of shots being separated; and a video structure information managing/storing portion for managing/storing separated subject information, correlated subject information, the camcorder operation condition information, background information, and shot-to-shot relation information.