Patent ID: 7636928

Claim:
An image-processing method comprising the steps of: receiving a television broadcast including a television-program broadcast and a plurality of commercial-message broadcasts transmitted during the television-program broadcast; detecting whether a commercial-message broadcast is included in the received television broadcast; recording images of a television-program broadcast received between the first commercial-message broadcast and a second commercial-message broadcast, the second commercial-message broadcast being a previous commercial-message broadcast received prior to the first commercial-message broadcast, when the detecting step detects a first commercial-message broadcast in the currently received television broadcast; generating a summary image including a video obtained by extracting the recorded images of the television-program broadcast at predetermined time intervals, and for joining the extracted images to each other; and producing the summary image for a predetermined display time, wherein, when an automatic mode is selected by a user, the predetermined time intervals and the predetermined display time are automatically determined based on a remaining time information indicating when the detected first commercial-message broadcast is finished.