Patent ID: 7356512

Claim:
A contents mediating system for mediating contents selling between a user side system and a community system in which the user side system is used by a contents user and the community system has a plurality of member terminals used by members connected via a network where contents are created by at least one member and are used in common by said members of the community system, comprising: a contents registering and confirming section which accepts a registration of contents outputted from said member terminal and confirms whether said member is only to provide said contents in said community system as common contents; or, to provide said contents in said community system and allow members to sell said contents to said contents user as selling contents; a contents storing section which stores said contents that are registered by said contents registering and confirming section and identifies said common contents and said selling contents; a contents searching section which searches the contents storing section for said selling contents according to a request outputted from said user side system; a contents distributing section which distributes said selling contents searched out by said contents searching section to said user side system; a contents settling unit which receives a use fee of said selling contents used by said contents user from said user side system and pays said use fee to said member who provided said selling contents; and an analyzing portion that extracts a frame from motion image contents according to a scene change, as a still image thumbnail, then the analyzing portion analyzes pan, tilt, zoom of the motion image contents and motion speed of scene so as to decide the representative frame.