Patent Document ID: 20120233168
Application ID: 13510811
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A sound and image segment sorting device comprising: a sound segment sorting unit that sorts a plurality of sound segments contained in a video into at least one sound cluster based on an arbitrary operation condition so as to generate a sound segment sorting result; an image segment sorting unit that sorts a plurality of image segments contained in the video into at least one image cluster based on an arbitrary operation condition so as to generate an image segment sorting result; a multiple sorting result generation unit that generates a plurality of sound segment sorting results and/or a plurality of image segment sorting results by applying a plurality of different operation conditions to at least one of said sound segment sorting unit and said image segment sorting unit; a sorting result pair generation unit that generates a plurality of sorting result pairs each including one sound segment sorting result and one image segment sorting result based on the plurality of sound segment sorting results and the plurality of image segment sorting results obtained by said multiple sorting result generation unit; a sorting result comparative score calculation unit that calculates, for each sorting result pair, a sorting result comparative score representing a fitness between a sound segment sorting result and an image segment sorting result included in the sorting result pair; and a sorting result output unit that selects a sorting result pair having a high fitness based on the sorting result comparative score and outputs a sound segment sorting result and an image segment sorting result included in the sorting result pair.