Patent ID: 8713008

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for retrieving and presenting to a user image content blocks desired by the user, comprising: a content acquisition section that acquires image content blocks via the Internet; a feature amount extraction section that extracts amounts of content features of images from an image content block acquired via the Internet, wherein the amounts of content features include an intensity of motion of a subject in the images included in the image content block; an extraction section that extracts predetermined scenes from the image content block using the amounts of content features extracted by the feature amount extraction section; a storage section that stores the image content block, the extracted scenes, and scene information associated with the image content block, wherein the scene information includes an Internet address that is used to acquire the image content block via the Internet; an acquisition section that acquires information including a video sequence that includes a subject and information regarding predetermined content features of the subject included in the video sequence as a search reference for retrieving the image content block; a retrieval section that retrieves from the extracted scenes a scene whose degree of agreement with the video sequence included in the search reference is higher than a threshold set by a user from among the scenes extracted by the extraction section; and a presentation section that presents the image content block including the scene retrieved by the retrieval section as a result of retrieval, a first scene that is in the same image content block and before the scene, and a second scene that is in the same image content block and after the scene, wherein the presentation section obtains the degree of agreement of each scene of the image content block and sums the degree of agreement of each scene as priority information of the image content block to present image content blocks desired by the user in an order determined by the priority information.