1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a presentation system for synthetically presenting information intended by an editor using picture information and voice information, a method for generating presentation data, and a program for generating presentation data.
2. Description of Related Art
Conventionally, when an editor attempts to present pictures shot and picked up by a digital still camera, etc. and voices recorded by a voice recorder, etc. by using a personal computer, the editor has to paste picture data and voice data manually on a presentation software.
In pasting picture data and voice data on the presentation software, the editor is required to have sophisticated skills, and plenty of time is necessary to do this work. Furthermore, some data which are originally related to each other temporally are not dealt with as such by the personal computer. So, the editor has to consider the data relation, which increases the work of the editor.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks by providing a presentation system which can present picture data and voice data in a simplified manner after shooting and picking up pictures by a digital still camera, etc. and recording voices by a voice recorder, etc., a method for generating presentation data, and a program for generating presentation data.
According to the present invention, there is provided a presentation system including:
According to the present invention, there is provided a method for generating presentation data including the steps of:
According to the present invention, there is provided a program for generating presentation data executing the steps of:
According to the present invention, picture data and voice data can be presented in a simplified manner after shooting and picking up pictures by a digital still camera, etc. and recording voices by a voice recorder, etc.
These objects and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Preferred embodiments according to the present invention will further be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In these embodiments, a method for generating presentation data, that is a method for automatically generating presentation data based on temporal information by the use of a presentation system composed of a software performing the method and a personal computer executing the software will be explained.
In the presentation system, a personal computer executes a software which performs the method for automatically generating presentation data based on temporal information. Thus, picture data and voice data are sequentially related to each other as slides for presentation based on shooting time of pictures shot and picked up by a digital still camera, etc. and recording time of voices recorded by a voice recorder, etc., and presentation data is generated automatically. Details of a program which performs the method for automatically generating presentation data will be explained later.
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The personal computer 10 further includes a bridge 15. The host bus 14 is connected to an external bus 16 which may be a PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect/Interface) bus via the bridge 15. The personal computer 10 further includes a keyboard 18, a mouse 19, a display 20, and an HDD (Hard Disc Drive) 21. When inputting various commands to the CPU 11, the user operates the keyboard 18. When directing the pointing operation or selecting operation on a screen of the display 20, the user operates the mouse 19. The display 20 may be an LCD (liquid crystal display) or a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), and displays various information in the form of texts or pictures. The HDD 21 drives a hard disc to record/reproduce a program to be executed by the CPU 11 and information. In this embodiment, the application program which performs the method for automatically generating presentation data based on temporal information is recorded in advance. The application program is reproduced and supplied to the RAM 13. The application program which performs the method for automatically generating presentation data based on temporal information is recorded in various recording media mounted to a drive 22, which will be described later, or may be supplied to the RAM 13.
The personal computer 10 further includes a drive 22. The drive 22 reads out data or programs recorded in a magnetic disc 23, an optical disc (including a compact disc) 24, or a magneto-optical disc 25, which are mounted thereto, and supplied the read out data or programs to the RAM 13 via an interface 17, the external bus 16, bridge 15, and host bus 14.
The personal computer 10 further includes a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port 26. The USB port 26 is connected to a portable device, not shown, by a USB cable. The USB port 26 outputs data (including such as contents data or commands for the portable device) supplied from the HDD 21, CPU 11, or RAM 13 via the interface 17, external bus 16, bridge 15, and host bus 14 to the portable device.
The keyboard 18, mouse 19, display 20, HDD 21, drive 22, and USB port 26 are connected to the interface 17. The interface 17 is connected to the CPU 11 by the external bus 16, bridge 15, and host bus 14.
The personal computer 10 further includes a voice inputting/outputting interface 27 and a loud speaker 29. The voice inputting/outputting interface 27 performs interface processing such as digital voice inputting/outputting or analog voice inputting/outputting for digital data or analog data supplied from an input terminal 28. The loud speaker 29 generates voices corresponding to contents data from the voice data supplied from the voice inputting/outputting interface 27.
The personal computer 10 further includes a communication unit 30. The communication unit 30 is connected to a network 31. The communication unit 30 stores data (such as request for registration or request for sending contents data) supplied from the CPU 11 or HDD 21 into packets of a predetermined form, and sends the stored data via the network 31. Also, the communication unit 30 receives data (such as authentication key data or contents data) stored in packets via the network 31, and sends the data to the CPU 11, RAM 13, or HDD 21.
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After obtaining temporal information of all picture data and voice data in the folder, the presentation system performs relating operation for pages of slides so that the picture data and the voice data correspond to the slides at the time of data presentation. That is, the picture data and the voice data are caused to be temporally matched (step 2).
Next, the presentation system makes the user select whether information processing for data will be performed or not (step 3). If the user intends to perform the information processing for data, the flow advances to step 4. In step 4, the user can perform the information processing for data such as voice recognition, text inputting, or selecting static pictures from moving pictures, if necessary, for each of the related slide data in the presentation system. After completion of the information processing for data in the presentation system, the presentation data is completed, and then data presentation is initiated (step 5).
Next, specific operation of the presentation system will be explained with reference to
When the presensoft is executed in the presentation system, a dialog 40 of the presensoft is displayed on the display 20 of the personal computer 10, as shown in
On pointing the displayed “folder” button by the cursor 43 and clicking the button by the mouse 19, a folder is selected, which step is the above-described step 1. After the folder selection, picture files included in the selected folder are enumerated in the list area 42 of the dialog 40, as shown in
On double-clicking a picture file intended to be processed among the enumerated picture files, a dialog 50 is newly displayed on the display 20, as shown in
Next, an example of the case in which a voice file is related to a picture file will be explained. The recording time of the voice file is equal to the shooting time of the picture file, and the picture file and the voice file are displayed in the file displaying area 55, as shown in
After completion of the necessary processing, on clicking a “return” button, as shown in
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