Abstract:
A method and apparatus for encoding multimedia contents, and a method and a system of applying encoded multimedia are provided to effectively browse or share multimedia contents even when a user does not have a special application or when the multimedia contents encoding apparatus does not include a function of using meta data. A method of encoding multimedia contents includes steps of separating media data and meta data from the multimedia contents, generating meta data conforming to a predetermined standard format using the separated meta data, and encoding the media data and the meta data conforming to the standard format to generate a multimedia application format file including a header having information indicating the media data, the meta data and the media data. The meta data conforming to the standard format includes media album meta data.
Abstract:
PURPOSE: A search preference item defining and a multimedia contents search structure are provided to define and describe a user search preference item for referring to user characteristics in performing a contents based search operation so that it enables a user to search for desired contents more correctly. CONSTITUTION: The structure comprises a query input module(100), a user search preference description module(200), a query contents adaptation module(300), a search execution module(400), a specific value database(500), a search result adaptation module(600) and a search result output module(700). If a user inputs query contents at the query input module(100), the query contents with the user search preference, output by the user search preference description module(200), is transmitted to the query contents adaptation module(300). The adapted characteristic value of the query contents is transmitted to the search execution module(400), and is compared with the characteristic value stored at the database(500). The compared result is transmitted to the search result adaptation module(600), and is adapted according to the user search preference. Finally, the search result is output by the search result output module(700).