| US 7,389,035 B2 | ||
| Stream processing system with function for selectively playbacking arbitrary part of ream stream | ||
| Takayuki Miyazawa, Kanagawa (Japan); Masaru Suzuki, Kanagawa (Japan); Yoichi Takebayashi, Kanagawa (Japan); Yasuko Nakayama, Kanagawa (Japan); and Yuzo Tamada, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 27, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/373,705. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2002-053701 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0161610 A1, Aug. 28, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 386—46 [386/52; 386/57; 386/67; 386/69] | 10 Claims |

| 1. A stream processing system comprising:
a contents storage device operable to store a plurality of video contents;
a contents production device including a user interface to:
select a plurality of different video contents from among said plurality of video contents stored in said contents storage
device,
partition each of said plurality of different video contents into a plurality of partial video streams,
select part of said plurality of partial video streams of each of said plurality of different video contents while selectively
associating meta information items with the selected partial video streams, and
create a composite content by combining the selected partial video streams of said plurality of different video contents together
with said meta information, wherein said composite content contains information of each selected partial video stream as a
virtual video stream comprising a start time and an end time of the partial video stream in each different video content;
a contents server connected to said contents storage device and operable to provide a real video stream by reading said composite
content from said contents storage device, parsing said composite content, reading the partial video streams from said contents
storage device based on the respective virtual video streams of said composite content as parsed, and sequentially and continuously
outputting the partial video streams as said real video stream together with said meta information items based on the respective
virtual video streams of said composite content as parsed; and
a client machine connected to said contents server and operable to receive said real video stream from said contents server
and play back said real video stream to a user of said client machine;
wherein each of said meta information items contains a title, a text, keywords, and link information, said text describing
a content of the partial video stream corresponding to said each of said meta information items,
wherein said client machine is operable to sequentially play back the partial video stream of each of said video contents
and then play back the partial video stream of a next one of said video contents continuously from the end time of said each
of said video contents, to the user of said client machine, such that said composite content is played back in the same manner
as an individual video content, and
wherein said client machine is operable to display, when one of the partial video streams is displayed during playing back
said real video stream, one of said meta information items corresponding to said one of the partial video streams such that,
while viewing the partial video stream, the user of said client machine can read said text as a reference text of said one
of the partial video streams and select said link information to view another content connected by said link as reference
information of said one of the partial video streams.
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