Electronic device and facial image display apparatus

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device which stores face thumbnail indexing information including face images and time stamp information, extracting module configure to assign time zones to a video content data and to extract face images belonging to each time zone based on a time stamp information, classifying module configure to classify facial images of the same person from the extracted facial images, calculating module configure to calculate a frequency of appearance of each classified facial image, and facial image indication module configure to display a list of the facial images included in the facial image indexing information in a facial image indication in a two-dimensional display area, the facial image indication having time-zone-specific display areas in columns corresponding to the time zones, each facial image displayed in each time-zone-specific display area being displayed in a size based on the frequency of appearance.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-256524, filed Sep. 28, 2007, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Field[0003]One embodiment of the present invention relates to an electronic apparatus and a facial image display method that display a facial image that appears in image contents.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]In this case, a title name is added to each video content data stored in the electronic apparatus, but grasping contents in each video content data from the title name alone is difficult. Therefore, playing back the video content data is required to grasp the contents in the video content data. However, even when, e.g., a fast-forward playback function is used, playback of video content data having a long total time requires a large amount of time.[0006]Jpn. Pat. Appln. KOKAI Publication No. 2001-3092...

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In this case, a title name is added to each video content data stored in the electronic apparatus, but grasping contents in each video content data from the title name alone is difficult.

However, even when, e.g., a fast-forward playback function is used, playback of video content data having a long total time requires a large amount of time.

However, when a list of characters is simply displayed like Jpn. Pat. Appln. KOKAI Publication No 2001-309269, a user cannot grasp which time zone in video content data that each character appears.

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