Patent ID: 8121462

Claim:
A video editing device that extracts a specific scene among a plurality of scenes included in a video stream stored in a storage medium, and reproduces the extracted specific scene, wherein the plurality of scenes includes: a first scene as a main scene; and a plurality of types of second scenes, each second scene of the second scenes being for increasing a presentation effect of the first scene and being a selection candidate of a scene to be reproduced in combination with the first scene, wherein the storage medium stores: first scene specification information specifying the first scene, including time information indicating a storage position of the first scene as a storage time, and including pieces of situation information, each piece of situation information, of the pieces of situation information, indicating a situation of a scene relating to the first scene; a plurality of pieces of second scene specification information, each respective piece of second scene specific information, of the plurality of pieces of second scene specification information, specifying a respective second scene of the second scenes, including time information indicating a storage position of the respective second scene as a storage time, and including a piece of identification information of pieces of identification information, such that each piece of identification information, of the pieces of identification information, identifies one of the plurality of types of the second scenes; and a selection table indicating a correspondence between the pieces of situation information and the pieces of identification information, and wherein the video editing device comprises: an acquisition unit operable to acquire the first scene specification information; a selection unit operable to select, from the selection table, one or more pieces of the identification information in correspondence with a piece of situation information, of the pieces of situation information, included in the acquired first scene specification information; and an extraction unit operable to extract, as one or more pieces of information each specifying a second scene, of the second scenes, to be reproduced in combination with the first scene specified by the acquired first scene specific information, one or more pieces of second scene specification information, of the plurality of pieces of second scene specification information, specifying a second scene, of the second scenes, that (i) matches a type identified by the selected one or more pieces of identification information and (ii) has a storage time closest to the storage time of the first scene.