Abstract: An imaging device includes a display unit for displaying a video image being captured, an index operating unit for inputting an instruction for an index, and an index setting unit for setting as an index section, a section in the video image captured for a predetermined time period including a time point of a user's operation of inputting the instruction for the index, in response to one user's operation on the index operating unit while the video image is captured.

Abstract: The total imaging time period and recorded volume of each image is displayed in association with the imaging date and time of the image. An imaging information acquiring section acquires information on the imaging dates and times and recorded volumes of images. The acquired information is held in an index table. A period setting part sets the period of a period display. An imaging start position deciding section decides the position corresponding to the imaging start date and time of each image in the period display. An imaging time length deciding section decides the display range of the imaging time length of each image in the period display. A recorded volume length deciding section decides the display range of the recorded volume length of each image.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a map screen generation portion that, based on image pickup position information indicating a plurality of image pickup positions of moving images picked up, generates a map screen including a map on which a trajectory line indicating a movement trajectory of the image pickup position is drawn, a display control portion that causes a display portion to display the map screen, and a position detecting portion that detects a position on a display screen of the display portion which a user specifies using an operating body, wherein the position detecting portion detects a point on the trajectory line specified by the operating body, and, based on the image pickup position information, the display control portion causes a thumbnail image of the moving image picked up at an image pickup position corresponding to the detected point to be displayed on the map screen.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to store in a recording medium a piece of attribute information specified by a user input from among a plurality of sequential pieces of the attribute information in association with a predetermined time period of a content stored in the recording medium.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including, an operating portion on which are input a recording start instruction and a recording stop instruction, a recording portion that records onto a recording medium moving images that are picked up during a recording period from the recording start instruction to the recording stop instruction, a thumbnail generation portion that generates a plurality of thumbnail images that represent each of sections obtained by time division of the moving images, and a display control portion that displays a recorded image verification screen on a display portion immediately after the recording stop instruction, the plurality of thumbnail images being arranged in chronological order on the recorded image verification screen.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed which allows a user to grasp recording image regions for a moving image and a still image to be recorded actually to perform accurate image recording. An image pickup apparatus which can record moving images and still images determines forms of guide frames for a moving image and a still image based on aspect ratios for moving images and still images set in advance by a user. The guide frames are displayed on a monitor screen in response to a situation of an actual recording process. Where the image pickup apparatus is not in a state wherein image data can be recorded such as where a medium does not exist, only a guide frame for an image of a category which can be recorded is displayed together with a picked up image.

Abstract: An image data recorder coding a still image in accordance with a moving image coding system, and recording a still-image-converted moving image acquired by coding onto a recording medium includes: a reading unit reading out an aspect ratio set for the recording medium; a determining unit acquiring an aspect ratio of the still image, and determining whether the acquired aspect ratio is the same as the aspect ratio for the recording medium; a coding unit adding an interpolation area on the top and bottom, or left and right of the still image in accordance with the result of the determination to generate an interpolation-area-added still image whose aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio for the recording medium, and coding the interpolation-area-added still image in accordance with a moving image coding system to generate the still-image-converted moving image; and a recording unit recording the still-image-converted moving image onto the recording medium.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for recording an imaging result on a recording medium includes an imaging device operable to obtain an imaging result; an optical system operable to form an optical image on an imaging plane of the imaging device; a first motion detector operable to detect a movement of the imaging apparatus and to output a detection result; and a recorder operable to record the imaging result, together with the detection result, on the recording medium.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: display means for displaying an image; operation input receiving means for receiving a user's operation input; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, and displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card among the plurality of image cards is received by the operation input receiving means.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: display means; operation input receiving means; and display control means for making a display control of allowing an image to correspond to an image card as an object imitating a real card, displaying a check image, which indicates a shape in which a plurality of the image cards overlap, on the display means, displaying one of an image corresponding to a specific image card and information indicating the image in a partial or overall area of the specific image card when a check operation indicating an instruction to check the specific image card is received, and changing a display state of the display means from a first state where the checking image is displayed to a second state where the image corresponding to the specific image card is displayed when a selection operation indicating that the specific image card is selected is received.

Abstract: An image data recording apparatus that sets a video image aspect ratio for a recording medium according to a predetermined recording format includes a determining unit for determining whether the aspect ratio has been set for the recording medium, a selecting unit for allowing a user to select the aspect ratio to be set for the recording medium, a writing unit for writing the selected aspect ratio information in a predetermined area of the recording medium, a reading unit for reading out the aspect ratio information set for the recording medium, a setting unit for setting each unit of the image data recording apparatus according to the aspect ratio information written in the predetermined area of the recording medium or the read out aspect ratio information, and a forbidding unit for forbidding changing of the set aspect ratio.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: reading means for reading still image data from a recording medium on which the still image data are recorded in a predetermined order; display control means for displaying the still images read by the reading means; and still image accepting means for accepting commands regarding display of the still images, wherein when a command for a slideshow of the still images has been accepted by the still image accepting means with one of the still images under display, the reading means reads pieces of the still image data successively, starting with the still image data next to the still image data corresponding to the one under display, and the display control means displays still images corresponding to the still image data read by the reading means successively, following the one under display, whereby to make the slideshow display.

Abstract: An image data recorder coding a still image in accordance with a moving image coding system, and recording a still-image-converted moving image acquired by coding onto a recording medium includes: a reading unit reading out an aspect ratio set for the recording medium; a determining unit acquiring an aspect ratio of the still image, and determining whether the acquired aspect ratio is the same as the aspect ratio for the recording medium; a coding unit adding an interpolation area on the top and bottom, or left and right of the still image in accordance with the result of the determination to generate an interpolation-area-added still image whose aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio for the recording medium, and coding the interpolation-area-added still image in accordance with a moving image coding system to generate the still-image-converted moving image; and a recording unit recording the still-image-converted moving image onto the recording medium.

Abstract: A recording device that includes: a main image data acquisition section acquiring main image data in real time; a sub image data generation section generating sub image data, which can be recorded on a recording medium together with the main image data based on a predetermined rule using a predetermined format, and is the image data defined to be displayable through overlay on a display image as a reproduction result of the main image data; an associated information acquisition section acquiring associated information of predetermined contents when the main image data is acquired; a sub image data generation control section exercising control over the sub image data generation section to generate the sub image data by which the contents of the associated information are displayed in a predetermined layout; and a recording section recording on the recording medium, in accordance with the format, the main image data and the sub image data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus for recording an imaging result on a recording medium includes an imaging device operable to obtain an imaging result; an optical system operable to form an optical image on an imaging plane of the imaging device; a first motion detector operable to detect a movement of the imaging apparatus and to output a detection result; and a recorder operable to record the imaging result, together with the detection result, on the recording medium.

Abstract: The total imaging time period and recorded volume of each image is displayed in association with the imaging date and time of the image. An imaging information acquiring section acquires information on the imaging dates and times and recorded volumes of images. The acquired information is held in an index table. A period setting part sets the period of a period display. An imaging start position deciding section decides the position corresponding to the imaging start date and time of each image in the period display. An imaging time length deciding section decides the display range of the imaging time length of each image in the period display. A recorded volume length deciding section decides the display range of the recorded volume length of each image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a plurality of images having different aspect ratios can be displayed with minimized distortion on the same display screen. An image processing apparatus records a thumbnail image with an aspect ratio of 4:3. When a thumbnail image whose aspect ratio is corrected from 16:9 to 4:3 is to be displayed on a display screen whose aspect ratio is 4:3, the thumbnail image is reduced so as to have a heightwise dimension reduced to ¾. On the other hand, when a thumbnail image whose aspect ratio remains 4:3 and is not corrected is to be displayed on a display screen whose aspect ratio is 16:9, the thumbnail image is reduced so as to have a widthwise dimension reduced to ¾. The present invention can be applied to a digital video camera.

Abstract: An image recording/playback control apparatus includes a moving image capturing section capturing a moving image and generating moving image data; a still image capturing section capturing a still image and generating still image data; a still image information generation section generating still image information in which the moving image data and the still image data are associated with each other by an image-capturing time; moving and still image coding sections coding the moving and still image data, respectively; a recording section recording the coded moving and still image data; a separation section separating the coded moving and still image data; moving and still image decoding sections decoding the coded moving and still image data, respectively; a still image information indication section indicating the moving or still image data; a selection section selecting the moving and still image data; and a display control displaying the moving or still image data.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed which allows a user to grasp recording image regions for a moving image and a still image to be recorded actually to perform accurate image recording. An image pickup apparatus which can record moving images and still images determines forms of guide frames for a moving image and a still image based on aspect ratios for moving images and still images set in advance by a user. The guide frames are displayed on a monitor screen in response to a situation of an actual recording process. Where the image pickup apparatus is not in a state wherein image data can be recorded such as where a medium does not exist, only a guide frame for an image of a category which can be recorded is displayed together with a picked up image.