Patent ID: 8819558

Claim:
A computer-implemented edit information provision device that provides a correspondence relationship between before and after editing in an editing process that performs correction on content including a time axis for each section, said edit information provision device comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, an edited section information acquisition unit that, by a processing unit of a computer, generates edited section association information that associates a section in a part of a content before performing corrections, which section is to be corrected and is interposed in time series between sections not to be corrected, with a section in a part of a content after performing corrections, which section has been corrected and is interposed in time series between uncorrected sections; a provision unit that provides an association between the section in the part of the content before performing corrections and the section in the part of the content after performing corrections, which association is described by the edited section association information, wherein the edited section information acquisition unit acquires edit history information, which includes time information of a section to which the editing process has been applied, and generates the edited section association information using the acquired edit history information; a before-correction group generation unit that generates a before-correction group using the edit history information, which group includes a group of sections to be corrected and being consecutive along the time axis; and a first section/group association information generation unit that determines the section having been corrected that is associated with sections of the before-correction group using the edited section association information, and generates a first section/group association information that associates the before-correction group and the section determined by the first section/group association information generation unit, wherein the provision unit further provides the association between the before-correction group and the section having been corrected, which association is described by the first section/group association information.