Patent ID: 9014537
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F,G06K,G11B

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus that generates resource information used for playing back image content that can be divided into a plurality of zones, comprising: an image generator for generating a still image from each of the plurality of zones; a face processor for setting each of the plurality of zones to be a target zone and for determining whether a face of a specific character which is determined to continuously appear in at least one zone before the target zone is contained in the still image generated from the target zone by the image generator; and an information generator for specifying, on the basis of a determination result obtained for each of the plurality of zones by the face processor, at least one zone in which the face of the specific character continuously appears as a face zone, and for generating information concerning the face zone as one item of the resource information, the information concerning the face zone specifying at least two thumbnail images, a face thumbnail image and another thumbnail image, the face thumbnail image representing only a face image extracted from the still image, and the another thumbnail image representing all of the still image.