Multimedia database creation and management utilizing an evaluation of file contents in the database management
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideo Takiguchi, Fumiaki Takahashi
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Abstract
A graphic, representing possible values of attribute data for multimedia data to be stored, is displayed, and a desired position on the graphic is designated to store the multimedia data and the attribute data. Multimedia data and attribute data of the multimedia data are stored in a memory, status of the attribute data is displayed in a graphic form, a desired position on the graphic is designated, and the multimedia data is read form the memory in accordance with the designation.
Claims5
A processing apparatus comprising:
- (a) generating means for generating multimedia data;
- (b) display means for displaying a graphic where coordinates on the graphic correspond respectively to values of attribute data, the graphic representing the degree to which an item of multimedia data affects a user's sense;
- (c) designation means for designating a desired position on the graphic;
- (d) generation means for generating information representing the degree of sense that is set according to a position on the graphic, in accordance with the designation by said designation means;
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- (e) registration means for registering the information representing the degree of sense generated by said generation means to the multimedia data as information for retrieving the multimedia data.
An image processing apparatus which registers attribute data to image data, comprising:
- input means for inputting the image data;
- display means for displaying, by a graphic, coordinates respectively corresponding to a value of the attribute data;
- designation means for designating a desired position on the graphic;
- and
- registration means for registering a value corresponding to the designated position as a value for retrieving the image data, according to designation by said designation means,
- wherein, when said designation means designates the desired position, said display means displays, in a reduced form, another image to which the attribute data has already been registered and which is different from the image to which attribute data is currently to be registered, at a position according to the registered attribute data of the reduced other image.
An image processing method which registers attribute data to image data, comprising:
- an input step of inputting the image data;
- a display step of displaying, by a graphic, coordinates respectively corresponding to a value of the attribute data;
- a designation step of designating a desired position on the graphic;
- and
- a registration step of registering a value corresponding to the designated position as a value for retrieving the image data, according to designation in said designation step,
- wherein, when the desired position is designated in said designation step, said display step also displays, in a reduced form, another image to which the attribute data has already been registered and which is different from the image to which attribute data is currently to be registered, at a position according to the registered attribute data of the reduced other image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.