Video processing apparatus

A video processing apparatus comprising:

• video input means for inputting video data;
• ranking data input/generation means for inputting or generating ranking data with ranking added thereto in accordance with a level of importance in units of respective scenes in the video data;
• highlight scene data generation means for generating, based on the ranking data, data with a highlight scene described therein;
• default playback parameter determination means for determining a default playback parameter based on the highlight scene data as generated by the highlight scene data generation means;
• playback scene determination parameter input means for input of a parameter used to determine a playback scene;
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• a control unit which provides control in such a way as to preferentially use, when a playback parameter is input by the playback scene determination parameter input means, the playback parameter as input by the playback scene determination parameter input means rather than the playback parameter determined by said default playback parameter determination means to reproduce the playback scene of the video data.

A video processing apparatus comprising:

• video data input unit for inputting video data;
• highlight scene data input/generation unit for inputting or generating highlight scene data with a description of an important scene in the video data;
• default playback parameter determination unit for using the highlight scene data as input or generated by the highlight scene data input/generation means to determine a first playback parameter for reproduction of the video data;
• playback scene determination parameter input unit for input of a second playback parameter for reproduction of the video data;
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• a control unit operative to provide control in such a way as to reproduce a playback scene of the video data based on the first playback parameter when the second playback parameter fails to be input by the playback scene determination parameter input unit and reproduce, when the second playback parameter is input by the palyback scene determination parameter input unit, the playback scene of the video data based on the second playback parameter.