Patent ID: 8886683
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A metadata generation management device, comprising: a non-transitory memory device that stores a program; and a processor that executes the program and causes the metadata generation management device to operate as: a count unit that measures a playback amount of content, which is an amount of content that has been played back; a control unit that controls whether to output an instruction for generating metadata based on the playback amount of the content, the metadata being information searched for based on a request for searching for the content by a user, indicating characteristics of the content and being associated with the content; and a generation unit that performs generation processing for generating the metadata in determining the instruction is output from the control unit, wherein the control unit includes processing level information in the instruction and outputs the instruction, the processing level information indicating the first level processing is to be performed in determining the playback amount of the content is less than a predetermined playback amount, and indicating that second level processing is to be performed in determining the playback amount is greater than or equal to the predetermined playback amount, the second level processing requiring a larger processing amount than the first level processing, and the generation unit performs, as the generation processing of the metadata, one of the first level processing and the second level processing indicated by the processing level information in the instruction output from the control unit.