Patent ID: 8509599
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: an extracting unit that extracts program data containing commercial message sections and main sections from a video signal; a recording unit that records the program data extracted by the extracting unit; an analyzing unit that analyzes the program data to identify the commercial message sections and the main sections and generates clip attribute information for the identified commercial message sections; a data processing unit that adds skip information indicating that skipping is requested to the clip attribute information based on a skip request signal input by a viewer; and a reproduction control unit that controls the reproduction of the commercial message sections depending on the skip information when reproducing the program data recorded in the recording unit, wherein the reproduction control unit determines not to skip a commercial message, the skip being requested by a viewer, when the number of times that this commercial message is viewed is below a predetermined threshold value, wherein the reproduction control unit automatically skips the reproduction of a commercial message without a skip request signal input by a viewer after this commercial message is viewed by more than a predetermined number of times, wherein the clip attribute information of each commercial message sections relates identification information of the commercial message section with identification information of a main section which the commercial message section belongs to, start and end positions indicating a start time and an end time of the commercial message section in the main section, skip information indicating whether to skip the commercial message section, and a reference destination indicating a start time or a start address of another commercial message section that is a repeat of the commercial message section, and wherein after recording the program data, the recording unit deletes a first recorded commercial message section that is a repeat of a second commercial message section.