Patent ID: 7715691
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image service providing apparatus comprising: an input unit for inputting a video image file obtained by adding, to video data representing a plurality of continuous time-sequential still images photographed by a photographing device as frames of a video image, attendant data including a first data representing an image service to be processed on a range of frames of the video data corresponding to a subset of the plurality of continuous time-sequential still images and a second data representing an image service to be processed on a still image corresponding to a specific frame of the video data, the image service being at least one of forming a still image, recording the video image file, distributing a still image or the video data, or editing the video data; a setting unit for setting a type of the image service on the basis of the attendant data included in the video image file by the input unit; and a processing unit for processing the image service on the range of frames of the video data and on the still image corresponding to the specific frame of the video data for the video data included in the video image file input by the input unit on the basis of the type of the image service set by the setting unit.