Patent ID: 8494345

Claim:
A video reproducing device comprising: an extracting unit that extracts, when acquiring video data for reproducing a video content including sounds and pictures, a section containing a predetermined type of scene from within the video content related to the acquired video data; a reproducing unit that reproduces, when accepting a predetermined instruction about the video data by an operator, the video content based on the video data; an interrupting unit that interrupts, when receiving a skip instruction by the operator in the midst of reproducing the video content in the reproducing unit, the reproduction of the video content; a specifying unit that selectively specifies, when the section extracted by the extracting unit includes a point of time posterior by a predetermined period of time to the reproducing point of the video content of which the reproduction is interrupted by the interrupting unit in accordance with the skip instruction, a point of time coincident with the leading edge of the section as a resuming point of the reproduction, a point of time after a predetermined time from the leading edge of the section as the resuming point or a point of time before a predetermined time from the trailing edge of the section as the resuming point, based on a skip destination predefined in a skip destination definition table with respect to a combination of a program genre and the type of scene of the section extracted by the extracting unit; and a resuming unit that resumes the reproduction of the video content from the resuming point specified by the specifying unit.