Apparatus and method for separately viewing multimedia content desired by a user
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJu-Yun SUNG, Hee-Jeong CHOO, Keum-Koo LEE, Ji-Young KWAHK
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for reproducing multimedia content are provided. Content selected through user input unit is reproduced, and if it is requested that part of the reproduced content be registered as content of interest, metadata about the part of the reproduced content is generated and stored using metadata about the reproduced content. The generated metadata is generated and stored as metadata of interest about the content of interest according to input of a user input unit.
Claims8
A method for reproducing multimedia content, the method comprising:
- reproducing first multimedia content received from a first server;
- generating, based on a selection of a first portion of the first multimedia content while reproducing the first multimedia content, first metadata including time information about the selected first portion of the first multimedia content and location information of the first multimedia content;
- reproducing second multimedia content received from a second server;
- generating, based on a selection of a second portion of the second multimedia content while reproducing the second multimedia content, second metadata including time information about the selected second portion within the second multimedia content and location information of the second multimedia content;
- generating one integrated metadata including the first metadata and the second metadata;
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- accessing the first multimedia content stored in the first server and the second multimedia content stored in the second server using the location information included in the one integrated metadata.
An apparatus for reproducing multimedia content, comprising:
- a display unit;
- and
- a control unit configured to:
- reproduce first multimedia content received from a first server via the display unit,
- generate, based on a selection of a first portion of the first multimedia content while reproducing the first multimedia content, first metadata including time information about the selected first portion of the first multimedia content and location information of the first multimedia content,
- reproduce 3 second multimedia content received from a second server, based on a selection of a second portion of the second multimedia content while reproducing the second multimedia content,
- generate second metadata including time information about the selected second portion within the second multimedia content and location information of the second multimedia content,
- generate one integrated metadata including the first metadata and the second metadata, and
- access the first multimedia content stored in the first server and the second multimedia content stored in the second server using the location information included in the one integrated metadata.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.