Patent ID: 6370316
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A moving picture administrating apparatus, comprising:a video data storing means for storing video data; a scene producing means for segmenting said video data stored in said video data storing means into a plurality of segmented scenes, giving a scene number to each of said segmented scenes, and selecting a representative frame of scene; an index storing means for storing at least one index being edited as an assembly of section information required in a playback of each scene, said scene number, and said representative frame of scene which are produced by said scene producing means; an index editing means for editing said index stored in said index storing means to produce a new index; a title adding means for adding a title to each index stored in said index storing means; a playback means for successively playing scenes in order of the scene number so that the playback starts with one of scenes of said index; a caption frame detecting means for retrieving said video data stored in said video data storing means to detect a caption frame containing a character string; a character recognizing means for recognizing a character string contained in each caption frame, and a character string display means for displaying a list of caption character strings recognized by said character recognizing means.