Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Gracenote, Inc.

Jan A D Nesvadba

Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis

Ronaldus Maria Aarts

Mauro Barbieri

Freddy Snijder

Igor A Nagorski

An apparatus for playing video content includes a play means () for playing video content. The video content includes overlapping scenes (), with each scene having an associated scene signature. A scene hopping selector () is operative while the play means () is playing video content for selecting a hop. The selecting defines a current scene () which the play means () is playing at a time of the selection, and a current scene signature corresponding to the current scene (). A similar scene hopping processor () operates responsive to a defining of a current scene (). The similar scene hopping processor () compares the current scene signature with other scene signatures of the video content to identify a similar scene (). The similar scene hopping processor () causes the play means () to transfer the playing to the similar scene ().

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Jan A D Nesvadba