| US 7,595,833 B2 | ||
| Visualizing camera position in recorded video | ||
| Rajanish Calisa, Artarmon (Australia) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/362,193. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005200888 (AU), filed on Feb. 28, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0195876 A1, Aug. 31, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—333.01 [348/36; 348/333.05] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A method for displaying one of a plurality of images stored in a storage server, the images captured by a controllable
camera, the method comprising the steps of:
constructing a representation of a field of view accessible by the camera;
retrieving, from the storage server, the stored image and a plurality of parameters characterizing a plurality of control
states of the camera when the image was captured; and
displaying: (a) the retrieved image; (b) the representation; and (c) an indicator on the representation dependent upon the
parameters,
wherein the method displays a video clip comprising sub-clips of the stored images,
wherein the displaying step comprises, for successive sub-clips of the video clip, the steps of displaying: (1) the sub-clip,
and (2) an indicator on the representation dependent upon parameters associated with the sub-clip, and
wherein for each successive sub-clip in the video clip, the indicator associated with the sub-clip is displayed for a time
period after the sub-clip ceases to be displayed.
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