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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2002
Takeshi Nakamura, Tsurugashima, JP;
Takeshi Nakamura, Tsurugashima, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo-to, JP;
Abstract
A summary reproducing apparatus, which is capable of reproducing a summary accurately for each type of video information and of reducing a burden in generating digest information, provided with an audio feature amount extraction unit for obtaining a sound feature amount on the basis of a preset parameter from entered audio/video information, a genre information obtaining unit for obtaining genre information from additional information added to the entered audio/video information, a decision parameter setting unit for setting an optimum parameter for extracting a sound feature amount on the basis of genre information, and a control unit for deciding digest segments to be extracted in stored audio/video information on the basis of an audio feature amount suitable for the preset parameter and for controlling a reproduction unit on the basis of the digest segments, wherein a summary is reproduced by using a parameter optimized for each genre.