APPARATUS AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING DIGEST CONTENT

摘要

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate variable-speed digest content for allowing a user to comprehend overall scenes included in a material video image in as short time as possible. Ž<P>SOLUTION: An event detecting section 131 detects a change in a specific image or voice as an event for each shot obtained by a video signal analysis section 12. A section 132 for deciding a digest section and a section playback speed decides a digest section and a playback speed thereof so that the digest section extracted from the shot is reproduced at a higher speed as the number of events detected is smaller. A digest video generation section 133 generates digest content according to the decided playback speed for each of the digest sections. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž