Patent ID: 8693843
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: accepting means for accepting a user's input of specification of a remarkable scene during playback processing of a video content to be recorded on a recording medium or a video content already recorded on a recording medium; detecting means for detecting scene changes of the video content to be recorded on the recording medium or the video content already recorded on the recording medium; setting means for bookmarking a scene corresponding to a timing of accepting the input of specification of the remarkable scene by the accepting means, such that the setting means bookmarks the remarkable scene, which starts at a scene change, of the scene changes detected by the detecting means; acquiring means for acquiring additional information for generating a display indicating contents of the remarkable scene using character information, an image, or a combination thereof extracted from the video content; storage means for storing the acquired additional information for each bookmarked remarkable scene from the video content together with other additional information for bookmarked remarkable scenes from other video contents, such that the storage means stores a plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates contents of one of a plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from a plurality of video contents; and display controlling means for controlling generation of the display indicating the contents of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes on the basis of the plurality of additional information stored in the storage means, such that the display includes a listing of the plurality of additional information, wherein each of the plurality of additional information indicates the contents of one of the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes, and the plurality of bookmarked remarkable scenes are from the plurality of video contents, wherein the acquiring means includes extracting means for extracting the character information, such that the character information is extracted from the video content based on a position of a cursor input of the user in the user's input of specification of a remarkable scene, such that image data of a portion of a frame of the video content that includes the position is extracted and recognized as including an image of a person, and such that the character information extracted by the extracting means and displayed in the list screen includes a name of the person.