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US 7,743,342 B2Granted
Moving-image icon generating apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMasakazu Nishijima
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Abstract
The sizes of icons for moving images (the size of a rectangle on the front side of each icon, the length of each icon in the depth direction thereof, etc.) that specify moving-image files are changed depending upon file information (moving image playback times, image sizes of the frames that make up the moving images, sizes of the moving-image files, etc.) concerning the moving-image files specified by the icons for the moving images. The content of each moving-image file can be ascertained by observing the icon for its moving image.
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An apparatus for generating icons for moving images, comprising:
- a decision device that decides a shape and a color of each of a plurality of moving-image icons of a plurality of moving-image files based upon the plurality of moving-image files and a maximum size and a minimum size among sizes of images of frames constituting moving images representing moving-image data that has been stored in said plurality of moving-image files;
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- a generating device that generates data representing a moving-image icon having the shape and color decided by said decision device,
- wherein said decision device decides the shape and the color of the plurality of moving-image icons based upon said moving-image data stored in said plurality of moving-image files identified by said moving-image icons and moving-image data stored in other moving-image fires,
- wherein said moving-image icons comprise a rectangular cube shape and said decision device decides a dimension of at least one side of the rectangular cube shape based upon a playback time,
- wherein said color comprises a degree of lightness, the degree of lightness of said each of a plurality of moving-image icons being decided by the size of the moving image file, and
- wherein said decision device decides a horizontal size LI based upon LI=I+(Hx−Hmin)/L0, wherein L0 is an incremental value equal to (Hmax−Hmin)/(S−1),
- where Hmax represents a maximum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, Hmin represents a minimum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, S represents a number of steps it takes to make a change from the minimum value to the maximum value, and Hx represents a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of image size of a moving image identified by a moving-image icon for which size LI is to be calculated.
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An apparatus for generating icons for moving images, comprising:
- a decision device that decides a shape and a color of each of a plurality of moving-image icons of a plurality of moving-image files based upon the plurality of moving-image files and a maximum compression rate and a minimum compression rate among rates of moving-image data that has been stored in said plurality of moving-image files;
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- a generating device that generates data representing a moving-image icon having the shape and color decided by said decision device,
- wherein said decision device decides the shape and the color of the plurality of moving-image icons based upon said moving-image data stored in said plurality of moving-image files identified by said moving-image icon and moving-image data stored in other moving-image files,
- wherein said moving-image icons comprise a rectangular cube shape and said decision device decides a dimension of at least one side of the rectangular cube shape based upon a playback time,
- wherein said color comprises a degree of lightness, the degree of lightness of said each of a plurality of moving-image icons being decided by the size of the moving image file, and
- wherein said decision device decides a horizontal size LI based upon LI=I+(Hx−Hmin)/L0, wherein L0 is an incremental value equal to (Hmax−Hmin)/(S−1),
- where Hmax represents a maximum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, Hmin represents a minimum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, S represents a number of steps it takes to make a change from the minimum value to the maximum value, and Hx represents a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of image size of a moving image identified by a moving-image icon for which size LI is to be calculated.
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A method of generating icons for moving images, comprising:
- deciding a shape and a color of each of a plurality of moving-image icons of a plurality of moving-image files based upon the plurality of moving-image files and at least one of a compression rate of moving-image data stored in said plurality of moving-image files and an image size of images of frames constituting moving images representing moving-image data stored in said plurality of moving-image files and moving-image data stored in other moving-image files;
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- generating data representing a moving-image icon having the shape and the color decided by said deciding at least one of the shape and the color,
- wherein said moving-image icons comprise a rectangular cube shape and a dimension of at least one side of the rectangular cube shape is decided based upon a playback time,
- wherein said color comprises a degree of lightness, the degree of lightness of said each of a plurality of moving-image icons being decided by the size of the moving image file, and
- deciding a horizontal size LI based upon LI=I+(Hx−Hmin)/L0, wherein L0 is an incremental value equal to (Hmax−Hmin)/(S−1),
- where Hmax represents a maximum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, Hmin represents a minimum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, S represents a number of steps it takes to make a change from the minimum value to the maximum value, and Hx represents a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of image size of a moving image identified by a moving-image icon for which size LI is to be calculated.
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An apparatus for generating icons for moving images, comprising:
- a decision device that decides a shape and a color of each of a plurality of moving-image icons of a plurality of moving-image files based upon moving-image data stored in said plurality of moving-image files identified by said moving-image icon and moving-image data stored in other moving-image files;
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- a generating device that generates data representing a moving-image icon having the shape and color decided by said decision device,
- wherein said moving-image icon comprises a rectangular cube shape and said decision device decides a dimension of at least one side of the rectangular cube shape based upon a playback time,
- wherein said color comprises a degree of lightness, the degree of lightness of said each of a plurality of moving-image icons being decided by the size of the moving image file, and
- wherein said decision device decides a horizontal size LI based upon LI=I+(Hx−Hmin)/L0, wherein L0 is an incremental value equal to (Hmax−Hmin)/(S−1),
- where Hmax represents a maximum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, Hmin represents a minimum value of a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of all image sizes of all moving-image files, S represents a number of steps it takes to make a change from the minimum value to the maximum value, and Hx represents a number of pixels in the horizontal direction of image size of a moving image identified by a moving-image icon for which size LI is to be calculated.
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