An image-capturing device according to the present disclosure includes: an image-capturing unit that captures a moving image and generates first moving image data; and a controller that generates second moving image data based on a cutout area obtained by cutting out a part of an entire area of a moving image indicated by the first moving image data and records the generated second moving image data on a recording medium. The controller changes at least one of a position and a size of the cutout area according to a predetermined instruction of a user and records resultant image data on the recording medium.

Methods and apparatus for allowing a user to switch viewing positions and/or perspective while viewing an environment, e.g., as part of a 3D playback/viewing experience, are described. In various embodiments images of the environment are captured using cameras placed at multiple camera positions. During viewing a user can select which camera position he/she would like to experience the environment from. While experiencing the environment from the perspective of a first camera position the user may switch from the first to a second camera position by looking at the second position. A visual indication is provided to the user to indicate that the user can select the other camera position as his/her viewing position. If a user input indicates a desired viewing position change, a switch to the alternate viewing position is made and the user is presented with images captured from the perspective of the user selected alternative viewing position.

[Object] To provide stable infrared images. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: an acquisition unit that acquires an infrared image; and a control unit that variably controls a target wavelength of the infrared image acquired by the acquisition unit and controls gradation of the infrared image depending on the target wavelength.

It is an object of the invention to realize automatic video generation displaying in an easily understandable manner the state of brush stroke as effectively maintaining immersion feeling happened by looking-around operation during reproduction of the image production of an omnidirectional image. A stroke information group is associated with valid line-of-sight information from a reproduction sequence recording the line-of-sight information and the stroke information group. The number of frames between a pair of line-of-sight information is made constant. When the line-of-sight moves from a line-of-sight A via a line-of-sight B to a line-of-sight C, the stroke information group corresponding to the line-of-sight B is reproduced in a range from “a frame of a center between the line-of-sight information A and B” to “a frame of a center between the line-of-sight information B and C”.

The present disclosure provides an electronic device and method for playing image data. The method for playing back image data in an electronic device includes storing an audiovisual (A/V) data for a predetermined period of time in a memory of the electronic device. The electronic device plays back the A/V data, wherein upon playing back, by the electronic device, the A/V data comprises analyzing an audio signal of the A/V data dynamically to select one of a plurality of sound effects based on the analyzed audio signal. The A/V data is played back by applying the selected sound effect to at least a part of the A/V signal.

A resolution converter converts input image data to N types (N is a plural number) of image data having resolutions different with each other. A secret sharing unit performs secret sharing schemes so that the plurality of pieces of image data are respectively divided into n pieces (n is an integer equal to or more than N+1 and the same value in all of image data) of distributed data and the distributed data is reconstructed to original image data using k pieces (k is an integer equal to or more than 2 and equal to or less than n and different value for each piece of image data) among n pieces. A data combination unit generates n pieces of combination data by combining distributed data selected one by one so as not to overlap with each of resolutions and stores each piece of the combination data in different storages. As more pieces of distributed data are gathered, image data with higher resolutions can be reproduced and security for copyright, privacy, or the like can be secured in each piece of distributed data.

A recording apparatus is disclosed. The recording apparatus includes a data input portion configured to input data, a first moving image signal recording portion configured to record, based on the input data, a first moving image signal having a first image quality attribute, a condition detector configured to detect that the input data satisfies a predetermined condition during recording of the first moving image signal, and a second moving image signal recorder configured to record, based on the input data, a second moving image signal having a second image quality attribute when the condition detector detects that the input data satisfies the predetermined condition.

With the widespread availability of video cameras, we are facing an ever-growing enormous collection of unedited and unstructured video data. Due to lack of an automatic way to generate highlights from this large collection of video streams, these videos can be tedious and time consuming to index or search. The present invention is a novel method of online video highlighting, a principled way of generating a short video highlight summarizing the most important and interesting contents of a potentially very long video, which is costly both time-wise and financially for manual processing. Specifically, the method learns a dictionary from given video using group sparse coding, and updates atoms in the dictionary on-the-fly. A highlight of the given video is then generated by combining segments that cannot be sparsely reconstructed using the learned dictionary. The online fashion of the method enables it to process arbitrarily long videos and starts generating highlights before seeing the end of the video, both attractive characteristics for practical applications.

A storage system of original frames of monitor data and a storage method thereof are provided. The storage system includes a monitor sensor, an event marking circuit, a data storage circuit and a frame processing circuit. The monitor sensor provides a plurality of original frames. The event marking circuit has an input terminal coupling to the monitor sensor and an output terminal, and is used for determining an event intensity of a corresponding one of the original frames and marks the event intensity on the corresponding original frame. The data storage circuit is coupled to the output terminal and is used for completely storing the original frames. The frame processing circuit is coupled to the data storage circuit and is used for checking whether the original frames within the data storage circuit are deleted according to the event intensities.

Embodiments of the invention relate to social media and recordation of programs scheduled to be broadcast. Media content on one or more sites are gathered and characteristic data, such as associated tags, are extracted. A correlation of the media content with scheduled television programming is performed to identify any television programs that are related to the extracted content. In response to at least one match, a television program associated with the match is selected for a scheduled recording so that it may be viewed at a later point in time.