Contents replay apparatus and contents replay method
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1. A contents replay apparatus, comprising:
- acquisition means for;
acquiring first metadata corresponding to contents data of a first kind, andacquiring an instruction from a user regarding respective weights of fields of the first metadata;
search means for;
conducting a search of second metadata of contents data of a second kind, the search being based on a value of a field of the first metadata, andif the search hits in the second metadata of one of the contents data of the second kind, identifying the one of the contents data of the second kind as being related to the contents data of the first kind, and incrementing a score of the one of the contents data of the second kind by the respective weight assigned by the user to the field of the first metadata upon which the search is based;
first replay means for replaying the first kind of contents data;
second replay means for replaying the second kind of contents data; and
control means for controlling the first replay means and the second replay means so that the first and second kinds of contents data to be replayed are replayed in relation to each other.
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Abstract
To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material database 21 is replayed, a controller 10 acquires the metadata added to the audio data to be replayed from the material database, refer to the metadata of image data based on the above metadata to thereby search image data intimately related to the audio data, controls a voice replay system such as an audio decoder 32 and the like and an image replay system such as an image decoder 31 and the like, and replay the audio data to be replayed and the searched image data in relation with each other.
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1. A contents replay apparatus, comprising:
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acquisition means for; acquiring first metadata corresponding to contents data of a first kind, and acquiring an instruction from a user regarding respective weights of fields of the first metadata; search means for; conducting a search of second metadata of contents data of a second kind, the search being based on a value of a field of the first metadata, and if the search hits in the second metadata of one of the contents data of the second kind, identifying the one of the contents data of the second kind as being related to the contents data of the first kind, and incrementing a score of the one of the contents data of the second kind by the respective weight assigned by the user to the field of the first metadata upon which the search is based; first replay means for replaying the first kind of contents data; second replay means for replaying the second kind of contents data; and control means for controlling the first replay means and the second replay means so that the first and second kinds of contents data to be replayed are replayed in relation to each other. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A contents replay method, comprising:
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acquiring first metadata corresponding to contents data of a first kind; acquiring an instruction from a user regarding respective weights of fields of the first metadata; conducting a search of second metadata of contents data of a second kind, the search being based on a value of a field of the first metadata; if the search hits in the second metadata of one of the contents data of the second kind, identifying the one of the contents data of the second kind as being related to the contents data of the first kind, and incrementing a score of the one of the contents data of the second kind by the respective weight assigned by the user to the field of the first metadata upon which the search is based; and replaying the first kind of contents data and the second kind of contents data identified by the search in relation to each other. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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