VIDEO CONTENT CAPTION GENERATING METHOD, VIDEO CONTENT CAPTION GENERATING UNIT, DIGEST VIDEO PROGRAMMING METHOD, DIGEST VIDEO PROGRAMMING UNIT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM FOR MAKING COMPUTER PERFORM METHOD IS STORED

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PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a caption with a reasonable and smooth sentence line for a viewer (user) by making clear previous-and-next connection and relation of the caption generated from each video scene. PSOLUTION: A video content caption generating unit 100 is provided with a caption generating section 101, into which two or more textual information consisting of fragmented strings that describe content of each searched video scene are input to generate the caption which describes the video content of the video scene using the textual information; a video content determination section 102 which determines the content of each video scene from the input textual information; and a connection expression select section 103 which selects a connection expression from "SO", "BUT", "AND", "FURTHERMORE", "OR", according to the relation between the previous and the next video scenes, based on the determination result by the video content determination section 102; and the caption generating section 101 uses the connection expression selected with the connection expression select section 103 to connect the captions for the appropriate previous and next video scenes and output them. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI