Patent ID: 7486873
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An intelligent skip method for a video reproducing apparatus, comprising the steps of: calculating a GOS, to which a reproduction location of a current media belongs, according to a user's intelligent skip request, based on a current reproduction location of a media and a shot segmentation information or GOS information constituted with one long shot or a sequence of shot shots; determining whether the user's intelligent skip request is forward or reverse, based on the calculated GOS (GOScur) to which the reproduction location of the current media belongs; if the user's intelligent skip request is the forward skip request, setting a start time of a next GOS (GOScur+1) as a start time of a normal reproduction restart, and if the user's intelligent skip request is the reverse skip request, setting a start location of a GOS (GOScur), to which a reproduction location of a current media belongs, as a start time of a normal reproduction restart or setting a GOS (GOScur−1), which is before one from the GOS to which the reproduction location of the current media belongs, as a normal reproduction restart location; and performing a normal reproduction from the set normal reproduction restart location.