THUMBNAIL PROVISION DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, THUMBNAIL VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device, a method and a program, which can appropriately display on a user terminal the video thumbnails of a plurality of channels distributed through a video distribution service.SOLUTION: A thumbnail provision device 100, which provides the thumbnail videos of the plurality of channels in the video distribution service, includes: frame extraction means 102 which acquires the frame data of each channel provided by the video distribution service, to extract from the frame data a frame group to be used as the thumbnail video of each channel at predetermined intervals; sequence generation means 103 which arranges the frame groups acquired by frame extraction means 102 in a time axis direction, to generate a thumbnail video sequence; and means 104 which codes and transmits the thumbnail video sequence acquired by the sequence generation means 103.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2