Patent ID: 8218953
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video reproducing device comprising: an extracting unit that extracts, when acquiring video data for reproducing a video content including sounds and pictures, a section containing a predetermined type of scene from within the video content related to the acquired video data; a reproducing unit that reproduces, when accepting an instruction of reproducing the video data from an operator, the video content based on the video data; a display unit that displays a picture of the video content reproduced by the reproducing unit in a picture framing area, and displays a time line containing blocks specifying from a leading edge to a trailing edge of the section extracted by the extracting unit together with information specifying the type of scene and an indicator indicating a reproducing point of the video content; an interrupting unit that interrupts, when receiving an instruction of a skip from the operator in the midst of reproducing the video content in the reproducing unit, the reproduction of the video content; a specifying unit that selectively specifies, when the section extracted by the extracting unit includes a point of time posterior by a predetermined period of time to the reproducing point of the video content of which the reproduction is interrupted by the interrupting unit, a point of time in a vicinal area of the leading edge of the section as a resuming point of the reproduction or a point of time in a vicinal area of the trailing edge of the section as the resuming point, based on a skip destination predefined with respect to a combination of a program genre and the type of scene of the section extracted by the extracting unit; and a resuming unit that resumes the reproduction of the video content from the resuming point specified by the specifying unit.