Patent ID: 8254752

Claim:
A method for selectively replaying a movie from a scene on which a specific person appears, the movie including time-serially continuous multiple frames, comprising the steps of: (a) distinguishing persons appearing in the movie by recognizing their faces included in a specific frame through a face recognition technology; (b) obtaining identifier of each distinguished person, feature data of each face of the persons, information on time zone in which each person appears, wherein the feature data includes at least some features of the faces obtained by tracking the faces detected from the movie at periodical or non-periodical time interval, and the feature data is used to distinguish the persons included in frames following the specific frame, and wherein the information on the time zone includes a starting time and an ending time; (c) displaying the identifier of each person at a request of replay of the movie; and (d) replaying the movie from the starting time for a specific person who corresponds to a specific identifier if the specific identifier is selected by a pointing device, wherein, if there is a time gap in which the person does not continuously appear for less than a specific critical time, the step (b) includes the step of ignoring the time gap by automatic stitching algorithm.