Moving picture managing device

Claim 1

A moving picture managing device comprising: input means for inputting a moving picture, said moving picture being arranged in a tree structure by a plurality of scene and cuts, and each scene is coupled to a plurality of cuts belonging to the lower plane; sensing means (4) for sensing the boundary between a cut of the input moving picture consisting of a plurality of frames and another cut according to the amount of change in the number of blocks at the time of encoding the moving picture for a frame between the frame and an adjacent frame; storage means (3) for storing in cuts the moving picture seused by said sensing means; output means (2) connected to said storage means for supplying the moving picture in cuts read from said storage means; specifying means (10) for specifying the partition between a scene made up of a plurality of cuts of the moving picture supplied from said output means and another scene; and processing means (1) for, according to the specification by said specifying means, storing one moving picture in a tree structure fashion in which the moving picture is composed of one scene and a plurality of cuts.