Patent ID: 8913873

Claim:
A content reproduction control system, comprising: a content group storage that stores a plurality of contents; a signal feature series extraction unit that, for each content stored in said content group storage, extracts a signal feature series, being a series of signal features caused to correspond to positions on a time axis of the content; a common section group detector that detects common sections, being sections in which the signal features for different contents of the plurality of contents are similar to each other, groups the detected sections as a common section group based on said signal feature series for each content of the plurality of contents, and generates common section group information for specifying the content to which each common section of the common section group belongs and the position on the time axis of each common section of the common section group; a content reproduction quality information obtaining unit that, for said each common section group, obtains content reproduction quality information representing a reproduction quality of the content in each common section of the common section group based on the common section group information; and a content reproduction controller that, when reproducing a content of the plurality of contents along a time axis, which is stored in said content group storage: selects, in the common sections of to-be-reproduced content, a common section in which a reproduction quality is the greatest out of common sections in the common section group to which the common section belongs based on the common section group information; in the common sections of the to-be-reproduced content, makes a switchover to the content corresponding to the selected common section and reproduces the content; and in sections other than the common sections of the to-be-reproduced content, reproduces the to-be-reproduced content.