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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2006
Vincent Carl Harradine, Burlington, CA;
Alan Turner, Basingstoke, GB;
Morgan William David, Tilford, GB;
Michael Williams, Basingstoke, GB;
Mark John Mcgrath, Campbellville, CA;
Andrew Kydd, Basingstoke, GB;
Jonathan Thorpe, Winchester, GB;
Vincent Carl Harradine, Burlington, CA;
Alan Turner, Basingstoke, GB;
Morgan William David, Tilford, GB;
Michael Williams, Basingstoke, GB;
Mark John McGrath, Campbellville, CA;
Andrew Kydd, Basingstoke, GB;
Jonathan Thorpe, Winchester, GB;
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
An audio/video reproducing apparatus is connectable to a communications network for selectively reproducing items of audio/video material from a recording medium in response to a request received via the communications network. The audio/video reproducing apparatus may comprise a control processor operable in use to receive data representing the request for the audio/video material item via the communications network. A reproducing processor is operable in response to signals identifying the audio/video material items from the control processor to reproduce the audio/video material items. The data identifying the audio/video material items includes meta data indicative of the audio/video material items. The meta data may be one of UMID, tape ID and time codes, and a Unique Material Identifier the material items. To facilitate the identification and selection of the audio and/or video material, an audio and/or video processing apparatus is provided for processing audio and/or video signals representing sound and/or images. The processing apparatus comprises an activity detector operable to generate an activity signal indicative of an amount of activity within the sound/images represented by the audio/video signal, and a meta data generator coupled to the activity detector which is operable to generate sample images at temporal positions within the audio/video signal, which temporal positions are determined from the activity signal. The processing apparatus thereby provides a facility for automatically generating meta data from received audio/video signals. The meta data can be used to select the audio/video material.