Meta-data display system, meta-data synthesis apparatus, video-signal recording/reproduction apparatus, imaging apparatus and meta-data display method

A meta-data display method for displaying meta data related to a video signal generated by an image capture apparatus, said meta-data display method comprising the steps of:

• generating said reproduced video signal including said meta data added thereto from a recording medium;
• extracting at least a part of said meta data from said reproduced video signal from said recording medium;
• extracting at least a part of said meta data added to said video signal of every frame from a reproduced video signal, containing said meta data and the video signal, and synthesizing said extracted part with said video signal;
• and
• displaying said synthesized meta data, from said reproduced video signal including said synthesized meta data, on a display apparatus provided in said image capture apparatus synchronously with the real-time video captured by the image capture apparatus;
• wherein
• said meta data added to said video signal includes scene-information meta data, which is meta data related to a scene shot by said image capture apparatus.

A meta-data display system for displaying meta-data related to a video signal, comprising:

• an imaging apparatus that captures video content and generates the video signal and meta-data associated with each frame of the video signal, and having a display adapted to display the meta-data of the captured video content synchronously with the real-time video captured by the imaging apparatus;
• a meta-data addition apparatus that receives the meta-data and the video signal and combines the meta-data associated with each frame of the video signal and the video signal , and outputs a combined video signal;
• a storage device for storing the combined video signal;
• a meta-data synthesis apparatus that synthesizes the combined video signal to produce a synthesized video signal, the synthesized video signal including the video signal where each frame is visually combined with at least a portion of the meta-data associated with that frame;
• a display for displaying the synthesized video signal synchronously with the real-time video captured by said imaging apparatus;
• and
• wherein the imaging apparatus receives the combined video signal from the meta-data addition apparatus, and the display on the imaging apparatus displays the meta-data from the combined video signal.

A meta-data display system, comprising:

• a meta-data synthesis apparatus for extracting at least a part of the meta-data associated with every frame of a video signal and synthesizing the extracted meta-data with the video signal to produce a synthesized video signal;
• and
• an image capture apparatus for generating the video signal and the meta-data for every frame of the video signal;
• wherein in the synthesized video, each video frame is visually combined with meta-data associated with that video frame, and the synthesized video signal is transmitted to the imaging apparatus;
• and
• the image capture apparatus includes a display adapted to display the meta-data of the captured video content synchronously with the real-time video captured by the image capture apparatus.