Patent ID: 9549162
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a scene change detection unit that identifies scenes in video content in response to detecting a scene change; a feature amount extraction unit that detects image features to identify whether characters appear in the identified scenes; an image recognition unit that identifies individual characters based on the image features of particular characters; a display control unit that causes (a) a content view which displays statistic information of characters appearing in the video content, the statistic information including (i) first displayed statistic information that represents how many of all of the scenes in the video content are character scenes, wherein a character scene contains the appearance of at least one character, and (ii) second displayed statistic information representing in how many of the character scenes a particular character appears, and (b) a relationship view which displays character-relation information of the identified individual characters appearing in the video content, to be displayed on a predetermined display unit, the character-relation information representing the proportion of scenes or content in which the particular character appears in the same scene or the same content with others of said individual characters.