Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method
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1. A hint information description method comprising:
- describing, as hint information for manipulation of metadata composed of at least one descriptor describing semantic content, a structure, and characteristics of content, a location of a syntax file defining syntax of the metadata.
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Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to scene section information and titles. Also, a name or an identifier of each descriptor contained in the metadata is described as hint information for manipulation of metadata composed of at least one descriptor describing semantic content, a structure, and characteristics of content.
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1. A hint information description method comprising:
describing, as hint information for manipulation of metadata composed of at least one descriptor describing semantic content, a structure, and characteristics of content, a location of a syntax file defining syntax of the metadata.
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2. A hint information description method comprising:
describing, as hint information for manipulation of metadata composed of at least one descriptor describing semantic content, a structure, and characteristics of content, information indicating whether each descriptor judged as possibly having child elements with reference to a syntax file defining syntax of the metadata actually contains every child element in the metadata.
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