Patent ID: 7519264

Claim:
A news broadcast program contents menu creation apparatus which creates a menu concerning contents of a news broadcast program including a telop, the news broadcast program contents menu creation apparatus comprising: a storage device which stores a video signal of the news broadcast program; a telop detection device which detects the telop of each of frames in the video signal of the news broadcast program of the predetermined genre from the video signal stored in the storage device; a video extraction device which extracts video data of only the telop satisfying a predetermined appearance condition out of a plurality of telops detected by the telop detection device; and a menu creation device which creates and outputs a video signal representing an image including the telop represented by video data as the menu, each time video data is extracted by the video extract device, wherein the video extraction device comprises a scene detection device which detects a frame at a point in time where a scene changes in a series of frames of a video signal stored in the storage device, and the predetermined appearance condition is to satisfy all of following conditions: condition (a): character sizes are larger than a predetermined size, and are constant for respective news items; condition (b): a telop appears a plurality of times in one news program; condition (c): a beginning telop appearing in a first scene of each news item is disposed in the same position every time; and condition (d): between the appearance and the disappearance of the beginning telop, there are no scene changes.