Content filtering method, apparatus thereby, and recording medium having filtering program recorded thereon

摘要

A content filtering method for selecting a desired piece of content from a plurality of pieces of content includes the steps of associating additional information about each piece of content and reduced image data representing the piece of content with the piece of content and registering the additional information and the reduced image data in a table; retrieving a piece of content having a highest level of coincidence with the additional information from the table by using the additional information corresponding to the reduced image data specified by a user as a search key; and presenting the reduced image data about the retrieved piece of content to the user.