Patent ID: 8306400

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving part that receives contents; an input part into which designation information to select desired contents is input from a user; a recording setting information generation part that generates recording setting information of contents to be recorded based on the designation information; an analysis part that analyzes relevance of content of the contents being recorded to be recorded based on the recording setting information to the designation information; and an acquisition part that acquires the desired contents of the user from the recorded contents based on an analysis result by the analysis part, wherein the information processing apparatus determines whether or not the designation information designates a genre, and when the designation information designates a genre, the analysis comprises analyzing image/sound feature qualities of the contents being recorded, and wherein the information processing apparatus determines whether or not the designation information is a keyword, and when the designation information is a keyword, the analysis comprises detecting the frequency with which the keyword appears in the subtitle of the contents being recorded.