Patent ID: 7466898
Filing Date: 2008-12-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: recording/reproduction means for recording a program produced by using video and audio signals to a recording medium contained in and/or removably fitted to the apparatus and reproducing and displaying the program on a display apparatus; identification processing means for recognizing and identifying an individual user reproducing and viewing the program recorded on the recording medium; and bookmark information processing means for associating each user with bookmark information by using user identification information of the user identified by the identification processing means and program information obtained by the recording/reproduction means, holding the bookmark information associated with each user and controlling the operation of reproducing a program by the recording/reproduction means by using the bookmark information associated with each user, wherein the bookmark information processing means associates the user identification information with program identification information and viewed hours or the span or spans of the program corresponding to the viewed hours.