Method and apparatus for playing back a moving picture
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKwang-Tai Kim, Jae-Hyeon Kang, Yo-Han Lee
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Abstract
A method of playing back a moving picture in a portable terminal includes recognizing at least one playback list including moving picture files having file names that are more similar than a determined degree from among all moving picture files, identifying at least one overlap playback section formed of identical frames by analyzing frames of moving picture files included in the generated playback list, and upon playing one of the moving picture files included in the generated playback list, determining whether an auto-skipping function is activated, and playing the requested one of moving picture files based on the determination.
Claims20
A method of playing back a moving picture, the method comprising:
- recognizing at least one playback list including a plurality of moving picture files;
- identifying at least one overlap playback section of each moving picture file by analyzing frames of each moving picture files with frames of a previously played moving picture file(s) in the generated playback list;
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- determining whether to skip playing the at least one overlap playback section upon playing one of the moving picture files in the playback list.
An apparatus for playing back a moving picture, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory configured to store at least one moving picture file;
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- a controller configured to perform a control to generate at least one play list including moving picture files with file names that have higher similarities than a predetermined degree from among moving picture files stored in the memory, to identify at least one overlap play section formed of identical frames by analyzing frames of moving picture files included in the generated playback list, to determine whether an auto-skipping function is activated, and to play one of the moving picture files which is requested to be played when playback of one of the moving picture files included in the generated playback list is requested.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.