Patent ID: 8260119
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A content editing apparatus which preliminarily associates an other content with a moving image content in an editing process, such that the other content is displayed in link with the moving image content in a normal reproduction of the moving image content, the content editing apparatus comprising: an acquisition section that acquires, for the editing process, moving image shooting information which at least identifies a time at which the moving image content was shot, individual shooting information which at least indicates a time at which each of a plurality of other contents which are candidates for a link display was shot, and the moving image content; a moving image reproduction control section that, for the editing process, reproduces the moving image content acquired by the acquisition section, and causes the moving image content to be displayed on a display device which is provided in the outside and connected to the content editing apparatus, or is built in the content editing apparatus; a time output section that outputs a moving image shooting time corresponding to the moving image content reproduced by the moving image reproduction control section, based on the moving image shooting information acquired by the acquisition section; a retrieval section that retrieves, from the individual shooting information acquired by the acquisition section, such individual shooting information that an individual time indicated by the individual shooting information is within a predetermined time period including the moving image shooting time outputted by the time output section; a selection request section that: pauses, at a time for a link display, the reproduction of the moving image content reproduced by the moving image reproduction control section, when one or more individual shooting information is retrieved by the retrieval section; makes a user select whether or not an other content, which corresponds to each of the retrieved one or more individual shooting information, is to be displayed in link with the moving image content in the normal reproduction of the moving image content; and releases the pause after whether or not a link display is to be performed is determined for all other contents corresponding to the individual shooting information retrieved by the retrieval section; and a storage section that acquires an other content selected to be displayed in link by the selection request section, and stores the other content in association with the moving image content, together with information indicating the time for a link display.