Recording and reproducing apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeMaxell, Ltd.
InventorMari YOSHIDA
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Abstract
In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily.
Claims11
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a recording and reproducing program for causing processing circuitry to execute recording and reproducing image information, the recording and reproducing program causing the processing circuitry to execute:
- photographing, by a photographing sensor, an object and generating image information to be stored in an internal recording medium or an external recording medium;
- reproducing, by a reproducer, the image information stored in the internal recording medium or the external recording medium;
- executing, by the processing circuitry, a face recognizing process on the image information generated by the photographing sensor to detect a face;
- registering, by the processing circuitry, a person in the image information as a specific person, wherein a first person with a face is obtained by newly photographing the first person in a photographing mode and is thereafter registered as a first specific person, and wherein a second person with a face is obtained by newly photographing the second person in a photographing mode and is thereafter registered as a second specific person;
- picking out image information, by the processing circuitry, which includes both the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person based on selection of thumbnail images being displayed, on a display, simultaneously corresponding to each of the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person, the thumbnail images extracting and indicating a face area of each of the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person;
- operating, by the processing circuitry, under a first controlling mode, in an event that the image information is reproduced, for causing the reproducing device to selectively reproduce image information sequentially from the recording medium, the image information to be reproduced being recognized with a relatively high importance level among image information having been recognized as including information on the first specific person and the second specific person.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a recording and reproducing program for causing processing circuitry to execute recording and reproducing image information, the recording and reproducing program causing the processing circuitry to execute:
- photographing, by a photographing sensor, an object and generating image information to be stored in an internal recording medium or an external recording medium;
- reproducing, by a reproducer, the image information stored in the internal recording medium or the external recording medium;
- executing, by the processing circuitry, a face-recognizing process on the image information generated by the photographing sensor to detect a face;
- registering, by the processing circuitry, a person in the image information as a specific person, wherein a first person with a face is obtained by newly photographing the first person in a photographing mode and is thereafter registered as a first specific person, wherein a second person with a face is obtained by newly photographing the second person in a photographing mode and is thereafter registered as a second specific person;
- picking out image information, by the processing circuitry, which includes both the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person based on selection of thumbnail images being displayed simultaneously corresponding to each of the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person, the thumbnail images extracting and indicating a face area of each of the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person;
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- arranging and displaying, by the processing circuitry, images corresponding to the picked-out image information which includes both the registered first specific person and the registered second specific person on a display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.