Abstract: In a contents summarizing unit that extracts a characteristic motion of a player during a match from video contents regarding sports and summarizes it in a required time period so that it can be watched in the required time period, the contents summarizing unit comprises an event information obtaining part that obtains event information such as the characteristic motion of the player during the match from the abovementioned contents, an inside expressing information producing part that produces inside expressing information describing an outline of the match based on the event information, a surface sentence information producing part that produces surface sentence information expressed by a sentence that summarizes the contents based on the inside expressing information, and a contents summary information outputting part that outputs contents summary information wherein the surface sentence information is associated with image information corresponding to the event information.

Abstract: A relatively inexpensive image recognition apparatus offering a high image recognition rate.

Abstract: An image recognizing device for recognizing the motion of a player on the basis of a content containing a sport in which players play in zones demarcated with an obstacle such as a net, including a video information acquiring section for acquiring video information representing the motion of the player in play from the content, a hidden state judging unit for judging whether or not a use tool such as a ball moving between the zones and being an object of scoring is in a hidden state by a predetermined object, a hit time information determining section for determining the time at which the use tool hits on the basis of the hiding start time at which the use tool is judged to be hidden by the hidden state judging section and the hiding stop time at which the hiding is judged to be stopped, a rule information storage section in which rule information on the sport is stored, and an image content recognizing section for recognizing the image content including the motion of the player represented by the video infor

Abstract: The present invention is a method for presenting the content of images, in which, out of images that include at least moving images and can be segmented into a plurality of scenes, groups of two or more key images included in the individual scenes are extracted, and a digest screen of the images, which include the groups of key images, is organized. The method is characterized in that a scene segmenting step of generating individual segmented scenes and the following three steps for each scene are provided: a key-image extracting step, a preceding-and-following-key-image extracting step of extracting at least one still image time-oriented preceding the key image and/or at least one still image time-oriented following the key image, and a key-image weighting step of assigning a weight to the key image on the basis of a predetermined measure.

Abstract: An image recognition apparatus is configured to recognize movements of players in a sport match or game from contents recording a sport match or game wherein the players match against each other between domains partitioned with such an obstacle as net, the image recognition apparatus including: a picture information obtaining section configured to obtain picture information containing an image of a movement of at least one of the players from the contents; a sound information obtaining section 103 configured to obtain sound information generated in synchronism with the picture information from the contents, the sound information including information on a hitting sound generated upon hitting of such an instrument as a ball moving between the domains; a hitting time information specifying section 105 configured to specify a hitting time at which the instrument is hit based on the sound information; a rule information storage section 102 configured to store rule information for carrying out the sport match or g

Abstract: A content converting device includes a structure description parser, a zooming description parser, a converting unit, and a generating unit. The structure description parser parses a structure description related to a display format of content including objects to be zoomed. The zooming description parser parses a zooming description that describes zooming operation/behavior for each of the objects. The converting unit converts the structure description to a content file based on a parsing result obtained by the structure description parser. The generating unit generates script language codes based on a parsing result obtained by the zooming description parser.

Abstract: An image recognizing device for recognizing the motion of a player on the basis of a content containing a sport in which players play in zones demarcated with an obstacle such as a net, including a video information acquiring section for acquiring video information representing the motion of the player in play from the content, a hidden state judging unit for judging whether or not a use tool such as a ball moving between the zones and being an object of scoring is in a hidden state by a predetermined object, a hit time information determining section for determining the time at which the use tool hits on the basis of the hiding start time at which the use tool is judged to be hidden by the hidden state judging section and the hiding stop time at which the hiding is judged to be stopped, a rule information storage section in which rule information on the sport is stored, and an image content recognizing section for recognizing the image content including the motion of the player represented by the video infor

Abstract: The present invention is an image processing technology for eliminating a second line-shaped image object, which overlaps with a first image object in one image comprising effective or ineffective pixels, from the first image object.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for presenting the content of images, in which, out of images that include at least moving images and can be segmented into a plurality of scenes, groups of two or more key images included in the individual scenes are extracted, and a digest screen of the images, which include the groups of key images, is organized. The method is characterized in that a scene segmenting step of generating individual segmented scenes and the following three steps for each scene are provided: a key-image extracting step, a preceding-and-following-key-image extracting step of extracting at least one still image time-oriented preceding the key image and/or at least one still image time-oriented following the key image, and a key-image weighting step of assigning a weight to the key image on the basis of a predetermined measure.

Abstract: A display controller reads an object, which is an intended zoom object, and changes its display form, generating a revised contents organization and displaying the revised contents organization on a display unit, based on an operation content of a user retrieved by an operation retrieving unit, an organization description pertaining to a display aspect of the contents, and a zoom description that describes the zoom action/behavior of each zoom object. Consequently, editing the contents becomes much easier. Further, the user is ensured a fair degree of freedom for viewing the contents.

Abstract: A system for browsing a document includes an object storing unit that stores an object forming the document and to be zoomed on a display; a display-description storing unit that stores a description indicative of a display condition on which the document is to be displayed; an operation acquiring unit that acquires information on an operation performed on the document by a viewer; and a display control unit that reads out an object from the object storing unit to display the object based on the information on the operation and the description, as the document.

Abstract: In a contents summarizing unit that extracts a characteristic motion of a player during a match from video contents regarding sports and summarizes it in a required time period so that it can be watched in the required time period, the contents summarizing unit comprises an event information obtaining part that obtains event information such as the characteristic motion of the player during the match from the above-mentioned contents, an inside expressing information producing part that produces inside expressing information describing an outline of the match based on the event information, a surface sentence information producing part that produces surface sentence information expressed by a sentence that summarizes the contents based on the inside expressing information, and a contents summary information outputting part that outputs contents summary information wherein the surface sentence information is associated with image information corresponding to the event information.

Abstract: An image recognition apparatus is configured to recognize movements of players in a sport match or game from contents recording a sport match or game wherein the players match against each other between domains partitioned with such an obstacle as net, the image recognition apparatus including: a picture information obtaining section configured to obtain picture information containing an image of a movement of at least one of the players from the contents; a sound information obtaining section 103 configured to obtain sound information generated in synchronism with the picture information from the contents, the sound information including information on a hitting sound generated upon hitting of such an instrument as a ball moving between the domains; a hitting time information specifying section 105 configured to specify a hitting time at which the instrument is hit based on the sound information; a rule information storage section 102 configured to store rule information for carrying out the sport match or g

Abstract: This invention intends to provide a relatively inexpensive image recognition apparatus offering a high image recognition rate.