Patent ID: 7962007
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: G11B,H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A signal processing device comprising: commercial message section detecting means for detecting a commercial message section in an input signal including at least the commercial message section and remaining signal section on a time division basis, wherein a start time of a commercial message and a length of the commercial message section are detected by the commercial message section detecting means; a commercial message extracting means for extracting the commercial message in the commercial message section from the input signal in accordance with a result of the detection by the commercial message section detecting means, the commercial message being extracted for subsequent access by a user, the access including play back of the commercial message in response to a user selection; a recording means for recording each commercial message for subsequent access by the user in response to the user selection; an index information extracting means for extracting information from said commercial message section to be used as a user-selectable index representing said recorded commercial message, the information extracted from said commercial message section and associated with said commercial message being one of a starting image, a cut point image, a starting sound or an ending sound; and a display means for displaying said index, the display means further playing back a selected commercial message audibly and/or visually in response to a user selection from the index, the index including a plurality of commercial messages recorded by the recording means that are selectable by the user for playback.