Patent ID: 7606462

Claim:
A device for producing digest video data of a desired playback time from original video data including a plurality of frame images that are continuous in a time series, comprising: a scene splitting module configured to split the original video data into a plurality of scenes each including a plurality of frame images; a frame evaluation level calculating module configured to calculate a frame evaluation level representing an importance of each frame image; a scene evaluation level calculating module configured to calculate a scene evaluation level representing an importance of each scene from the frame evaluation levels of the frame images included in the scene; a playback time computing module configured to determine a scene playback time of each scene in the digest video data, based on the desired playback time and the scene evaluation level; a frame extracting module configured to extract frame images to be used in the digest video data from each scene, based on the scene playback time; and a digest production module configured to produce the digest video data from the extracted frame images.