Explanatory-description adding apparatus, computer program product, and explanatory-description adding method

US8931002B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8931002-B2
Application numberUS-4976708-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateMar 17, 2008
Priority dateMar 27, 2007
Publication dateJan 6, 2015
Grant dateJan 6, 2015

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When a scene group including plural scenes, for example a group of scenes bookmarked during viewing of video contents is inputted, a combination of a scene and metadata in a group of metadata that represents characteristics of the scene, corresponding to the respective scenes in the scene group, which combination has a largest distance between the metadata, is selected as explanatory descriptions that are explanations for distinguishing among the scenes, and the selected explanatory descriptions for each scene included in the scene group is added to each scene.

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What is claimed is: 1. An explanatory-description adding apparatus comprising: a collecting unit that collects the certain time associated with the scene and text information associated with the scene at the certain time; a clipping unit that clips partial text information from the text information collected by the collecting unit; an extracting unit that collectively extracts a plurality of scenes that are physically different but logically the same from among the collected s…

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What does patent US8931002B2 cover?
When a scene group including plural scenes, for example a group of scenes bookmarked during viewing of video contents is inputted, a combination of a scene and metadata in a group of metadata that represents characteristics of the scene, corresponding to the respective scenes in the scene group, which combination has a largest distance between the metadata, is selected as explanatory descriptio…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Yamasaki Tomohiro, Tsutsui Hideki, Urata Koji, and 1 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G11B27/11. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jan 06 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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