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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2013
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tsunemitsu Takase, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a recording unit, a chapter generation unit, a metadata acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The recording unit is configured to record a program. The chapter generation unit is configured to generate one or more chapter points based on a feature amount of the recorded program. The metadata acquisition unit is configured to acquire metadata on the program, that includes information on a start time and end time of each section sectioning the program. The setting unit is configured to allocate, when a section to be reproduced in the recorded program is designated, two different chapter points to a start time and end time of the section given by the acquired metadata, and set an interval between the two chapter points as a reproduction range of the designated section.