Patent ID: 9661292
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G09B,H04N

Claim:
1. A content playback device comprising: a non-transitory memory storing a program; and a hardware processor configured to execute the program so that the content playback device operates as: a playback unit configured to play content having plural scenes; an object appearance information acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of the plural scenes, object appearance information of each of one or more objects which appear in the content by analyzing metadata which describes the one or more objects appearing in at least one of the scenes, the object appearance information indicating, for each of the objects, that the object: 1) appears in a current scene being displayed, 2) does not appear in the current scene being displayed, but appears in a next scene after the current scene, and 3) does not appear in the current scene being displayed, but appears in a scene after the next scene; and a presentation unit configured to present the object appearance information acquired on the current scene being played indicating, for each of the objects, that the object: 1) appears in the current scene being displayed, 2) does not appear in the current scene being displayed, but appears in a next scene after the current scene, and 3) does not appear in the current scene being displayed, but appears in a scene after the next scene, when the playback unit is playing the content, the object appearance information being superimposed on the content of the current scene being played.