Patent ID: 8805172

Claim:
A contents reproducing method for adjusting a contents reproducing time, the method comprising: receiving, from an external source, a target reproducing time provided by a user and user preference information, the user preference information comprising information regarding at least two sections or scenes in the contents labeling each of the at least two sections or scenes as user preferred contents section or scene or as not user preferred contents section or scene; obtaining contents reproducing data for adjusting a reproducing speed of the contents based on the target reproducing time and the user preference information; and adjusting by a computer the reproducing speed of the contents based on the reproducing data by reproducing the contents at normal speed in user preferred contents sections and reproducing the contents at a high speed in sections which are not the user preferred contents sections, wherein the high speed in the sections which are not the user preferred contents sections is set based on the target reproducing time provided by the user, which identifies time in which the user is to watch the contents which comprises both the user preferred contents sections and the sections which are not the user preferred contents sections.