Patent ID: 8046388

Claim:
An apparatus for producing program ancillary data relevant to each scene of a picture program to be recorded, comprising: a display control unit to demonstrate on a display picture an input form having, as an input item, information pertinent to a scene as an object for preparation; a program ancillary data generating unit to correlate the information specifying an associated scene with the information as entered through said input form; an index picture creating unit to extract a frame picture of the scene corresponding to the program ancillary data and recording said frame picture as an index picture and to create link information linking to video data of the scene; a layout information holding unit to hold information including a display position of the program ancillary data on the screen; and a data receiving unit to receive data, generated to identify picture material, in real-time from an image pickup camera, wherein the program ancillary data includes a first ID of a meta-pocket representing a first display picture for displaying information of commodities used in a single scene and a second ID of a meta-mall representing a second display for overviewing meta-pocket associated with a plurality of scene, wherein the program ancillary data includes information for commodities used by a performer in each scene of the picture program and GPS information of a store that provides the commodities for purchase, wherein the program ancillary data includes link information linking to the recorded index picture, and wherein the data receiving unit includes a detecting unit to detect a scene change point based on a unique material identifier to record new information when the scene change point is detected.