Apparatus and method for extracting context and providing information based on context in multimedia communication system

摘要

An apparatus and a method for providing a multimedia service which can automatically recognize various media corresponding to communication contents and provide information regarding to the media in bi-directional or multipoint communication. The method includes the steps of classifying a type of input multimedia data, detecting context of the multimedia data through a search scheme corresponding to the classified multimedia data, determining a search request condition of related/accessory information corresponding to the detected context, receiving the related/accessory information about the context by searching the related/accessory information corresponding to the context if a related/accessory search condition is satisfied as a determination result of a search condition, and providing the multimedia data and the related/accessory information about the context of the multimedia data to a user.