Patent ID: 9094650
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A chapter creating device that creates chapter data which indicates a starting point of content including at least one of audio or video, and includes time information indicating a reproduction start position and a header indicating an outline of the content at a reproduction point, the chapter creating device comprising: a live data receiving unit that receives live data including character string data which is input to a terminal by a viewer of the content which is transmitted from the terminal and a data registration date and time which is a date and time when the character string data is transmitted; a chapter candidate selecting unit that displays a list of live data entries received by the live data receiving unit on a display unit so as to prompt a user to select the displayed live data using an input unit, wherein each live data entry comprises: a chapter creating unit that creates chapter data including the character string data of the selected live data as the header and the data registration date and time of the selected live data as the time information, wherein the chapter data created by the chapter creating unit is configured to separate a broadcast content, and includes time information indicating a separation position, a header indicating the outline of the content at the time specified by the time information, and a broadcasting station ID identifying a broadcasting station which broadcasts the broadcast content, wherein the chapter creating device further includes: a broadcast content information storage unit that combines and stores the broadcasting time of the broadcast content which is broadcasted by the broadcasting station and broadcast content information which is sub-information about the broadcast content; and a broadcasting station identifying unit that allocates the broadcasting station ID to the live data based on highest degree of association between the character string data of the live data and each of the broadcast content information associated with a first broadcast content, the first broadcast content being a plurality of broadcast contents in which the data registration date and time of the live data is included in the broadcasting time, and wherein the chapter creating unit creates the chapter data using the character string data of the live data selected by the chapter candidate selecting unit as the header, the data registration date and time of the selected live data as the time information, and the broadcasting station ID allocated to the selected live data; and a content reproducing unit that displays a list of the created chapters, wherein the entry for each chapter comprises: a screen title to inform the user to select a chapter to play, wherein the list can be displayed in a separate pane on the screen with a content player, or on a full-screen display by itself, wherein the user selects an entry from the list as the selected chapter to be reproduced on the screen.