Patent ID: 8064750

Claim:
A picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing a picture content, comprising: a scene changing point judging module which judges a changing point of a scene of the picture content based on a plurality of judging levels defined by threshold values; and a reproduction control module which controls reproduction of the picture content and stopping reproduction of the picture content; wherein: in response to receipt of an instruction for changing one of said plurality of judging levels to another judging level, said reproduction control module shifts a temporal stopping position of the picture content from a current candidate stopping position to another candidate stopping position where feature amount satisfies said another judging level during a time of until when the reproduction of the picture content is stopped from when having received an instruction for stopping the reproduction of the picture content at a scene changing point which said scene changing point judging module has judged based on the one of said plurality of judging levels, and wherein said reproduction control module controls stopping reproduction of the picture content at a scene changing point which is judged based on said another judging level after changing from said one of said plurality of judging levels to said another judging level.