Patent ID: 8571381

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a display control unit configured to display on a display apparatus a segment map comprising segment-representing images representing video segments obtained by dividing content into video segments, wherein the video segments comprise collections of frames of one or more temporally continuous frames; a reproduction control unit configured to control reproduction of the video segments corresponding to the segment-representing images according to user input comprising a reproduction operation requesting reproduction with respect to the segment-representing images; and a clustering unit configured to cluster each frame of the content into clusters of a plurality of clusters; wherein: in a case where, during reproduction of a video segment of the content, a reproduction operation is detected with respect to a segment-representing image of an other video segment of the content, the reproduction control unit reproduces the other video segment corresponding to the segment-representing image with respect to which the reproduction operation is detected, while maintaining reproduction of the video segment being reproduced; and the clustering unit is configured to: determine a maximum likelihood state series in which characteristic amounts in chronological series of frames of the content are observed using a state transition model having states and state transitions, and cluster each frame of the content into clusters corresponding to states in which characteristic amounts of the frames are observed in the maximum likelihood state series.