US 6,983,420 B1
Motion picture information displaying method and apparatus
Tsutomu Itou, Kodaira (Japan); and Hirotada Ueda, Kokubunji (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 02, 2000, as Appl. No. 9/517,173.
Claims priority of application No. 11-054441 (JP), filed on Mar. 02, 1999; and application No. 11-119104 (JP), filed on Apr. 27, 1999.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/93 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 715—723 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for forming a hierarchical structure of representative images for use in editing a motion picture, wherein said hierarchical structure including a plurality of representative images is displayed on a screen of a display device, each of said representative images represents a series of frame images forming said motion picture, said method of forming a hierarchical structure comprising the steps of;
selecting first representative images representing a series of said frame representative images;
designating by a user a feature of a predetermined object to be detected in a frame image of the representative images;
performing an image detection processing for detecting said predetermined object based on said feature from a series of frame images corresponding to said selected first representative images;
displaying first information showing that said predetermined object is included in a series of said frame images on said screen, as a result of said image detection processing
displaying second information showing that said image detection processing has not been performed vet in a series of said frame images; and
forming said hierarchical structure based on said first representative images corresponding to a series of said frame images within which said predetermined object has been detected.