JPH06119402A - Image browsing display method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To enable confirmation of the presence or absence of audio information when displaying multiple image information in reduced size by the browsing display function of the image database system. [Structure] The image database system includes an image file, an audio file, an image file with audio, and an image information management file for managing attributes of image information.
When the start of browsing is instructed from the terminal, it is determined whether or not the image information is accompanied by sound according to the image management information of the management file (S3). If audio is included, whether to read image information from the image file and audio information from the audio file (S5, S
6) Whether to read image information and voice information from the voice-attached image file (S7, S8). Then, the image information and the audio information are synchronized (S9), the audio information is output to the audio output device, and the image information is output to the display device as a marked reduced image (S10, S11).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image browsing display method, and more specifically, it edits and stores image information with sound such as an electronic picture-story show, audio graphics, etc., and stores the image in response to a search request from a user. The present invention relates to an image browsing display method in an image database system that outputs information and audio information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an image database system, when retrieving target image information, a so-called browsing display function is used to retrieve an image information group satisfying a condition specified by a terminal or the like from a storage device and display a reduced image on the display device. It is widely practiced to display the designated image information as a whole on a display device by sequentially arranging and displaying the designated image information and designating arbitrary image information from the displayed image.

Conventionally, when displaying a reduced image with this type of browsing display function, only image information is displayed even if image information with audio information or image information and its audio information are stored in a storage device. .

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION In the prior art,
When displaying a reduced image with the browsing display function of the image database system, since only the image information is displayed,
In the case of image information with voice information, the presence or absence of voice information and the content of voice information are unknown, and there is a problem that it is not possible to identify whether the voice information is different on the same screen or is double registration.

An object of the present invention is to enable the presence / absence of voice information and the content of voice information to be confirmed in the reduced image display by the image browsing display function of the image database system.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides image information with voice information, image information, a storage device for storing voice information, a display device for displaying image information, and output voice information. In an image database system including a sound output device, etc., holding image management information indicating whether or not the image information stored in the storage device is accompanied by voice information, taking out the image information from the storage device, When sequentially arranging and displaying as a reduced image on the display device, the image management information is referred to, and when the image information is accompanied by audio information, the reduced image is marked and displayed, and synchronized with the reduced image display. That is, the voice information is output from the voice output device.

[0007]

The image management information is present for each image information with audio information or image information stored in the storage device. The image information name, the flag indicating the presence or absence of audio, and the case with audio,
A flag indicating whether the audio information is in the same file as the image information or in a different file. If the audio information is in a different file,
It is composed of the voice information name and the like. For each designated image information group, the image management information is referred to. When there is no sound, the image information is taken out from the image file and displayed as it is as a reduced image. If there is sound, it is checked whether the sound information is in a file different from the image file.
If it is in another file, the image information is extracted from the image file and the audio information is extracted from the audio file. In the case of the same file, the image information and the audio information are directly extracted from the image file with audio. Then, the image information is displayed as a reduced image with a mark, and the audio information is output in synchronization with the reduced image display. As a result, it is possible to know the presence / absence of voice information and its contents by the browsing display function. The voice information may be output as a part or all of the information.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows a system configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. A display device 11 for displaying an image browsing, a voice output device 12 for outputting voice information, and an image and voice processing are shown. It includes a processing device 13 for performing, a storage device 14 for storing image information with voice information and image information and voice information, and a terminal 15 for inputting commands and data. The storage device 14 and the terminal 15 may be connected to the processing device 13 via a line.

FIG. 3 shows files stored in the storage device 14. In FIG. 3, 141 is an image information management file that manages what information is included in the image information,
Reference numeral 142 is an image file for storing image information, 143 is an audio file for storing audio information, and 144 is an image file with audio for synthesizing and storing both an image and audio information.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of the image information management file 141. In this embodiment, the image information management file 1
In 41, image management information is registered for each image information stored in the image file 142 and the image file with sound 144. Here, one piece of image management information is image information name 141-1, flags 141-2, 141-3,
It is composed of voice information name 141-4. Image information name 141
The name of the image information is registered in -1. Flag 1
Reference numeral 41-2 indicates whether or not the image information has audio information, and the flag 141-3 indicates that when the image information has audio information, the audio information is in the same file as the image information or a different file. Indicates that there is. Voice information name 1
In 41-4, when the voice information of the image information is in another file (that is, the voice file 143), the entry word of the voice information or the like is registered. The image management information of the image information management file 141 may be prepared in the image file 142 or the image file with sound 144.

FIG. 1 is a processing flow chart of the processing device 13, and particularly shows a processing flow example of image browsing display according to the present invention. Hereinafter, description will be given with reference to FIG.

In step S1, the user receives a browsing start command input from the terminal 15 using a keyboard and a mouse. By receiving this step command,
The processing device 13 executes the process of displaying the image flag after step S2. In step S2, the image management information corresponding to one image information in the image information group satisfying the condition specified by the terminal 15 is read from the image information management file 141 of the storage device 14 using the image information name 141-1 as a key. . In step S3, the flag 141-2 of the image management information read in step S2 is referred to, and it is determined whether or not the image information has sound. If the image information is accompanied by audio information, the process proceeds to step S4.
In step S4, it is determined whether the audio information is a different file or the same file as the image information by referring to the flag 141-3 of the image management information. If it is another file, the process proceeds to steps S5 and S6. In step S5, the image information is read from the image file 142. In step S6, the voice information is read from the voice file 143 using the voice information name 141-4 of the image management information as a key.
Then, steps S9, S10 and S11 are executed. In step S9, the image information and the audio information are synchronized. In step S10, the audio information is output to the audio output device 12. In step S11, the reduced image information and the mark with sound are output to the display device 11. And step S
Proceed to 12. If it is determined in step S4 that the image information and the audio information are the same file, step S4
7. Go to S8. In step S7, the image information with voice is read from the image file 144 with voice. In step S8, image information and audio information are separated. afterwards,
The steps S9, S10, and S11 are similarly executed, and the process proceeds to step S12. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S3 that the image information does not include voice information, the process proceeds to steps S13 and S14. In step S13, the image information is read from the image file 142. Step S
At 14, the reduced image information is output to the display device 11. Then, the process proceeds to step S12. In step S12, the presence / absence of the next image information to be browsed is determined. If the next image information is present, the process returns to step S2 to read the image management information corresponding to the next image information. If there is no next image information, the browsing display process ends.

FIG. 5 shows a display example of a reduced image on the display device 11, in which (a) shows that the screens are displayed in reduced size, and (b) shows the next screen newly. It shows that it did. In FIG. 5, the screen is a reduced image with voice information, and this is displayed with a mark indicating that voice information is present.

FIG. 6 shows the time relationship between the screen display on the display device 11 and the audio output from the audio output device 12 in the display example of FIG. That is, the display is such that one screen of the reduced image is displayed and its sound is output, and then the next reduced image is displayed.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In the reduced screen display by the image browsing display function in the image database system, the presence / absence of voice and the voice information can be checked every time one screen is displayed, so that there is an effect that images can be selected more efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a processing flow of image browsing display according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram showing files of the storage device of FIG. 2. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of an image information management file in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display example according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a time relationship between reduced image display and audio information output.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 display device 12 audio output device 13 processing device 14 storage device 15 terminal 141 image information management file 142 image file 143 audio file 144 image file with audio

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An image database system comprising: a storage device for storing image information with audio information, image information, and audio information; a display device for displaying image information; and an audio output device for outputting audio information. In the image browsing display method, image management information indicating whether or not the image information stored in the storage device is accompanied by audio information is held, the image information is taken out from the storage device, and is displayed as a reduced image on the display device. When sequentially arranging and displaying, the image management information is referred to, and when the image information is accompanied by audio information, the reduced image is marked and displayed, and the audio output device synchronizes with the reduced image display. An image browsing display method characterized by outputting audio information.