Exemplary embodiments relate to the creation of a media effect index for group video conversations. Media effect application (e.g., in the form of graphical overlays, filters, sounds, etc.) may be tracked in a timeline during a chat session. The resulting index may be used to create a highlights reel, which may serve as an index into a live show or may be used to determine the best time to insert materials into a recording of the conversation. The index may be used to automatically detect events in the video feed, to allow viewers to skip ahead to exciting moments (e.g., represented by clusters of applications of particular types of media effects), to determine where each participant spoke in a discussion, or to provide a common watch together experience while multiple users watch a common video. An analysis of the index may be used for research or consumer testing.

Exemplary embodiments relate to the creation of a media effect index for group video conversations. Media effect application (e.g., in the form of graphical overlays, filters, sounds, etc.) may be tracked in a timeline during a chat session. The resulting index may be used to create a highlights reel, which may serve as an index into a live show or may be used to determine the best time to insert materials into a recording of the conversation. The index may be used to automatically detect events in the video feed, to allow viewers to skip ahead to exciting moments (e.g., represented by clusters of applications of particular types of media effects), to determine where each participant spoke in a discussion, or to provide a common watch together experience while multiple users watch a common video. An analysis of the index may be used for research or consumer testing.

The present technology relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium, which are capable of reproducing an appropriate HDR video. The reproducing device of the present technology acquires reproduction management information in which a first flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a first HDR video which is mandatory when a video of a luminance range wider than a standard luminance range is included in content is included in the content and a second flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a second HDR video that is likely to be included in the content is included in the content are described. Further, the reproducing device reproduces the encoded data of the first HDR video or the encoded data of the second HDR video on the basis of the details of the first flag and the second flag and performance of a display serving as an output destination. The present technology can be applied to a Blu-ray disc player.

The present technology relates to a reproducing device, a reproducing method, an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium, which are capable of reproducing an appropriate HDR video. The reproducing device of the present technology acquires reproduction management information in which a first flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a first HDR video which is mandatory when a video of a luminance range wider than a standard luminance range is included in content is included in the content and a second flag indicating whether or not encoded data of a second HDR video that is likely to be included in the content is included in the content are described. Further, the reproducing device reproduces the encoded data of the first HDR video or the encoded data of the second HDR video on the basis of the details of the first flag and the second flag and performance of a display serving as an output destination. The present technology can be applied to a Blu-ray disc player.

An example implementation involves a playback device receiving digital data representing audio content, the digital data encoded in a first format. The playback device causes one or more speaker drivers to playback the audio content. The playback device decodes a portion of the received digital data to convert the portion of the received digital data from the first format to a second format and transmits, via a network interface to a computing device of an identification system, the decoded portion of the received digital data. The playback device receives, from via the network interface from the identification system, metadata corresponding to the audio content, and in response, causes a control device to display a graphical representation of the received metadata, wherein causing the control device to display the graphical representation comprises sending, via the network interface to the control device, the received metadata to the control device.

The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining video material of news. The method for determining video material of news comprises: recognizing a person name in a news text; searching a video based on the person name, to obtain a to-be-selected video; extracting a key frame in the to-be-selected video; recognizing a person in the key frame to obtain identity information of the person; and determining the to-be-selected video as video material of news, in response to the identity information of the person conforming to the person name. The present disclosure improves the consistency between the video material of the news and the news text.

The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining video material of news. The method for determining video material of news comprises: recognizing a person name in a news text; searching a video based on the person name, to obtain a to-be-selected video; extracting a key frame in the to-be-selected video; recognizing a person in the key frame to obtain identity information of the person; and determining the to-be-selected video as video material of news, in response to the identity information of the person conforming to the person name. The present disclosure improves the consistency between the video material of the news and the news text.

A recording control device includes: a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire data on a video obtained by shooting an outside of a vehicle; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store the data on the video; an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a predetermined event; a traveling information acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information on the vehicle; and a recording control unit configured to determine a first period based on the traveling information and to record the data on the video, among the data on the video stored in the buffer memory, obtained from a time point as far back as the first period before the time point of detection of the event until a time point at which a second period has passed since the time point of detection of the event.

A recording control device includes: a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire data on a video obtained by shooting an outside of a vehicle; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store the data on the video; an event detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a predetermined event; a traveling information acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information on the vehicle; and a recording control unit configured to determine a first period based on the traveling information and to record the data on the video, among the data on the video stored in the buffer memory, obtained from a time point as far back as the first period before the time point of detection of the event until a time point at which a second period has passed since the time point of detection of the event.

Mechanisms are provided for character-based and image-based media content search and discovery. Character images or entity images are mapped to corresponding media content. Selection of an image or a portion of an image may trigger or search for corresponding media content or begin playback of relevant media content. Character images or entity images need not correspond to a primary program character or object but may correspond to minor characters or tangential entities depicted periodically on particular programs.