Patent ID: 7664376

Claim:
An information signal processing apparatus comprising: data playback means for playing back various types of data from a recording medium, on which featured data is recorded in a predetermined recording area on the recording medium and also video/audio data is recorded together with the predetermined featured data extracted from the predetermined video/audio data, image data, or audio-data according to a setting of a predetermined first parameter series; a predetermined recording medium to record predetermined video/audio information files to which the predetermined feature extraction processing and a predetermined playback period selection processing using the featured data extracted by setting a predetermined second parameter series are carried out; information file playback means for playing back the predetermined video/audio information files by selecting from the recording medium; parameter setting means for selecting one of the played back information files and setting predetermined parameter data corresponding to the information file and to the first or second parameter series, as predetermined playback processing adjustment parameters; playback period processing means for determining, according to a predetermined rule, the predetermined playback period of the video/audio data recorded on the recording medium according to the featured data and either initialization parameter data that is set in advance in accordance with the first and second parameter series or the parameter data adjusted by the parameter setting means, wherein the first parameter series is utilized in processing the predetermined featured data extracted from the predetermined video/audio data, image data, or audio-data and the second parameter series is used for generating a play list based on the data extracted; and playback control means for performing predetermined playback control according to a signal from the playback period processing means.