Patent Document ID: 8316301
Application ID: 11498857

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus topic based segmenting a video program, the apparatus comprising: a start-shot determination unit to detect a plurality of key-frames based on character information from video sequences including a plurality of frames to determine the detected key-frames as start-shots for each topic; and a topic list creation unit including at least one processing device to create a topic list based on the start-shots for each topic, wherein the start-shot determination unit determines the detected key-frames corresponding to a total number of main characters appearing in the video sequences and the total number of main characters is determined by analyzing an electronic program guide (EPG) signal and character clustering.

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Claim 3:
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the topic list creation unit organizes frames existing between a current topic start-shot and a next topic start-shot into a current topic episode, and adds the current topic episode to the start-shot of each topic in the topic list.