Patent ID: 8132211
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a video content specifying portion to specify at least one of a plurality of video contents recorded on a recording medium; an index element generating portion, in response to acceptance of a generation instruction, to read a video content identified by identification information included in the generation instruction from said recording medium and generate an index element based on the read video content, and, in response to acceptance of a cancellation instruction, to stop generation of said index element based on the video content identified by identification information included in the cancellation instruction; a generation requesting portion, in response to the event that said video content is specified by said video content specifying portion, to output said generation instruction including the identification information identifying the specified video content to said index element generating portion; and a canceling portion, when a new video content is specified by said video content specifying portion at a stage before the index element corresponding to said video content already specified by said video content specifying portion is generated by said index element generating portion, to output said cancellation instruction to stop generation of the index element corresponding to said already specified video content to said index element generating portion, wherein