Patent ID: 7480445

Claim:
A video recording/reproducing apparatus, comprising: a contents input means; an evaluating means for evaluating a plural number of frames included within the contents, which are inputted by said contents input means, upon basis of a parameter included in said contents; a ranking data producing means for producing a ranking value of each of said frames, upon basis of a result of evaluation, which is obtained within said evaluating means; a CM detecting portion for extracting a commercial message from said contents; a CM-use ranking data producing means for producing a ranking value of the commercial message, which is detected within said CM detecting portion; a ranking data composing means for composing the ranking values, which are produced within said ranking data producing means and said CM-use ranking data producing means; a threshold value inputting means for inputting a threshold value indicative of a ranking value of a frame to be reproduced therethrough; and a reproducing means for determining a reproducing section among said contents upon basis of the threshold value inputted and said ranking value composed, and for reproducing an abridgement corresponding to said reproducing section, wherein said CM-use ranking data producing means determines a ranking value of said commercial message therein, to be higher than said threshold value.