In an approach to playback speed adjustment, one or more computer processors extract metadata from a media file previously consumed by a user. One or more computer processors determine the metadata includes an eigenvector associated with each segment of the media file. One or more computer processors import data associated with actions taken by the user while the user consumed the media file. Based on the data associated with the actions taken by the user while the user consumed the media file, one or more computer processors extract the eigenvector and an associated eigenvalue of each previously consumed segment of the media file from the data associated with actions taken by the user while the user consumed the media file. One or more computer processors add the eigenvector and the associated eigenvalue of each previously consumed segment of the media file to a user profile.

An image capturing apparatus for intermittently acquiring first images for use in generating a time lapse moving image, from among images corresponding to frames included in a moving image. The image capturing apparatus includes a target value setting unit configured to, based on a result of photometry, set a target value regarding an exposure when an image is acquired, a control value calculation unit configured to calculate a control value with respect to each frame regarding the exposure when brightness is changed toward the target value, and a control unit configured to control the exposure based on the control value. In a predetermined period before each first image is acquired, the control unit changes the exposure by a first degree of change, and outside the predetermined period, the control unit changes the exposure by a second degree of change different from the first degree of change.

In a recording and reproducing apparatus and a recording and reproducing method for the recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing image information on a scene obtained through photographing, relative to a predetermined first recording medium and being capable of setting one or more chapters to each scene, a face recognizing process is executed for a photographed image based on the image information, an importance level of each chapter is set in accordance with a result of the face recognizing process for a very important person (VIP) set by a user, and each chapter having a relevant importance level among importance levels of respective chapters is selectively reproduced. A user can therefore find an object chapter and scene quickly and easily.

A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) with a simplified stacked structure and improved operation characteristics includes an upper chip, in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array structure, and a lower chip below the upper chip including a logic region having logic circuits and a memory region having embedded therein magnetic random access memory (MRAM) used as image buffer memory for storing image data processed by the logic region.

A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) with a simplified stacked structure and improved operation characteristics includes an upper chip, in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array structure, and a lower chip below the upper chip including a logic region having logic circuits and a memory region having embedded therein magnetic random access memory (MRAM) used as image buffer memory for storing image data processed by the logic region.

A method of creating a video of a puppet character comprising filming a scene including a first portion of a puppet character on a first recorded track, filming the same scene including a second portion of the puppet character on a second recorded track, and combining the first portion of the puppet character from the first recorded track and the second portion of the puppet character from the second recorded track together onto a single video recording of the scene with an assembled puppet character.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera module and an image processing module. The image processing module may obtains a first image and a second image for the scene including a first object and a second object, identifies a first motion amount corresponding to the first object and a second motion amount corresponding to the second object using the first image and the second image, and applies different effects to a first image area corresponding to the first object and a second image area corresponding to the second object, at least, based on the first motion amount and the second motion amount.

A digital video camera includes a data processing pipeline being operable in a plurality of modes including a first mode in which said video output data is passed to a data storage system for storage on local non-volatile storage; a second mode in which said video output data is formatted into a native video data format of a video transmission system and passed to the video transmission system for transmission; and a third mode in which said video output data is processed into a video data format that is not a native video data format of the video transmission system and passed to the video transmission system for transmission to a secondary memory.

Systems and methods are operable to retrieve at least a portion of a missed media content event. An exemplary embodiment detects an occurrence of a failed recording of at least a portion of a media content event of interest; transmits a notification of the detected occurrence of the failed recording of the at least the portion of the media content event of interest from a media device to a replacement content device; and receives, at the media device, at least a portion of missed media content corresponding to at least the portion of the media content event of interest that failed to record.

A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) with a simplified stacked structure and improved operation characteristics includes an upper chip, in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array structure, and a lower chip below the upper chip including a logic region having logic circuits and a memory region having embedded therein magnetic random access memory (MRAM) used as image buffer memory for storing image data processed by the logic region.