METHOD FOR PERSONAL-ORDERED MULTIMEDIA DATA RETRIEVAL SERVICE AND APPARATUSES THEREOF

摘要

An individually customized multimedia data search service method and an apparatus thereof are provided to search multimedia data easily in settop box environment to reduce multimedia data search time, thereby maximizing user's satisfaction. A server(200) extracts characteristic information and metadata of an entire screen and a partial area with regard to each scene of multimedia a user wants to store, and generates and stores image index information by using the extracted characteristic information and metadata. When image search is requested with regard to any characteristic information from a settop box(100) which is at a remote place, the server searches any characteristic information and similar characteristic information from the image index information, and provides an image and metadata corresponding to each characteristic information.