Patent ID: 8532465

Claim:
A moving image recording apparatus comprising: a feature amount extracting unit operable to extract plural types of feature amount data from moving image data, wherein the plural types of feature amount data relate to feature amounts of the moving image data, wherein one of the plural types of feature amount data corresponds to commercial message segment information relating to time at which a commercial is detected in the moving image data; a memory unit operable to record the extracted plural types of feature amount data and the moving image data; and a duplicate content searching unit operable to: delete the commercial message segment information of each detected commercial and corresponding extracted plural types of feature amount data from the moving image data to determine new plural types of feature amount data; correct elapsed time information for the new plural types of feature amount data relating to the moving image data to determine new time information having a start time of the recorded moving image data as a reference time; and search duplicate content among a plurality of moving image data stored in the memory unit based at least in part on the new time information of the new plural types of feature amount data of the moving image data.