Patent ID: 8218945

Claim:
A motion picture recording/reproducing apparatus, having a storage unit which stores a motion picture data received as a broadcast data or acquired through a network and a reproducing unit which reproduces the motion picture data, comprising: a feature generating unit which generates a feature data of image or voice in each frame in the motion picture data stored in the storage unit; a feature data storage unit which stores the feature data of image or voice in each frame in the motion picture data, in the storage unit; a category acquiring unit which acquires a category which is assigned to the motion picture data stored in the storage unit; a ranking data storage unit which stores each scene having one or more frames to be candidate of highlight reproduction and ranking data corresponding to each scene, wherein said each scene and ranking data are decided by an algorithm which is selected from a plurality of algorithms according to the category acquired by the category acquiring unit, based on the feature data of image or voice in each frame stored in the feature data storage unit; and a reproduction scene deciding unit which decides a reproduction scene to be reproduced when a highlight reproduction designation including reproduction condition designation is received from outside, the reproduction scene deciding unit decides whether or not to reproduce each scene stored in the ranking data storage unit on the basis of the reproduction condition designation and the ranking data, and then decides the reproduction scene to be reproduced; wherein the reproducing unit reproduces more than two reproduction scenes decided by the reproduction scene deciding unit in a sequence arranged according to a reproduction time of the more than two reproduction scenes.