Patent ID: 7711210

Claim:
A digest creation apparatus for creating a digest video comprising: a display device; a memory configured to store an image group, the image group being a group of frame images constituting a video; a candidate image selection module configured to select a plurality of candidate images from the image group as image processing candidates for undergoing predetermined processing, the plurality of candidate images being representative images for representing scene sections when the video is divided into a plurality of scene sections; a user interface module configured to display the plurality of candidate images on the display device and to identify one or more images that are selected by a user selection from amongst the plurality of candidate images for image processing; and a digest video creation module configured to perform, as the predetermined processing, processing for creating a digest video, principally comprising one or more scene sections corresponding to the one or more representative images that are selected as the images to undergo image processing; the candidate image selection module including: a score calculation module configured to calculate scores for a plurality of preselected evaluation items with respect to each of individual images in the image group, and to produce a combined score for each of the individual images by weighting and combining a plurality of the scores of the individual images using respective weighting coefficients, wherein the scores for the evaluation items with respect to each of the representative images are scores representing the entirety of the scene section to which the representative image corresponds; a selection execution module configured to select the plurality of candidate images from the image group based on the combined score; and a weighting adjustment module configured to calculate a degree of correlation between the user selection and each of the plurality of evaluation items, wherein the calculation of the degree of correlation is made as a function of the scores for the plurality of evaluation items calculated for the one or more candidate images that are selected by the user selection for image processing, and to increase the respective weighting coefficients for the evaluation items that are calculated to have a high degree of correlation with the user selection.