Patent ID: 8761577

Claim:
A user terminal, comprising: a communication unit for communicating with a server which manages a moving picture and play information thereof; a moving picture storage unit for storing the moving picture; a moving picture play unit for playing the moving picture; a moving picture management unit for registering the play information of the played moving picture in the server, or for downloading the moving picture and the play information from the server and managing the moving picture and the play information; a control unit for performing control such that the moving picture is continuously played from a location at which playing thereof had previously been terminated, on a basis of the play information, wherein the control unit, in a case where the moving picture is intended to be played, performs control such that, when it searches the play information for metadata having a title identical to that of a moving picture intended to be currently played, and metadata having the identical title is present, the control unit compares a total running time recorded in the metadata with a total running time of the current moving picture, and plays the moving picture from a location of a time stamp recorded in the metadata when the total running times are identical to each other, and wherein the control unit performs control such that it searches for an intra-frame (I) which is closest to a location of the time stamp and is smaller than the time stamp of the metadata, extracts a color histogram from a found intra-frame (I), compares the extracted color histogram with a color histogram of the metadata, and plays the moving picture from the intra-frame (I) when a difference between the color histograms is equal to or less than a predetermined level.