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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1996
Akio Nagasaka, Kokubunji, JP;
Takafumi Miyatake, Hachioji, JP;
Yoshikazu Amano, Miura, JP;
Shigeru Hirahata, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for presentation of information of a recorded television program for allowing user to seize easily and quickly content/composition thereof, and an easily manipulable interface therefor. Picture signal of a television program currently being recorded by a VTR or the like is converted into a frame-based picture signal. Frames indicating inter-shot transitions are detected and stored as shot-representative pictures for thereby generating a digest picture file composed of a set of the shot-representative pictures substantially simultaneously with recording operation of the VTR. In a digest picture display, the shot-representative pictures are displayed in a temporally sequential order in which they were generated in such a form that a predetermined number of shot-representative pictures are displayed in each of predetermined time zones in a uniform array, for facilitating comprehension of the contents of the television picture as recorded. Additionally, by selecting one of the shot-representative pictures being displayed a temporal position of the television picture from which reproduction is to be started can visually be determined.