Patent ID: 8781301

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to obtain at least one content including a sound; store and display plural icons symbolizing plural scene contents, each icon being stored in association with plural sound information; receive an icon selected by a user among the displayed plural icons, the selected icon being associated with selected plural sound information; compare sound unit components of each of the selected plural sound information associated with the received icon selection with sound unit components generated from a sound wave shape pattern of the sound included in the at least one content, to thereby detect a content including any one of the selected plural sound information in the sound; and output information on the detected content including any one of the selected plural sound information, wherein each of the icon is stored in association with direction word information that expresses the scene content symbolized by the corresponding icon with a character string, and the sound unit components of the plural sound information express plural character strings, each of which expresses a semantic content similar to the semantic content of the character string in the direction word information.