Abstract: A method and apparatus for summarizing a sports moving picture based on audio and image data contained in the moving picture of sports such as a football game are provided. The method includes: segmenting the sports moving picture into shots and extracting audio and image data of the segmented shots; calculating a level of importance for each of the shots based on the extracted audio and image data; and selecting important shots of the shots based on the calculated levels of importance of the shots and summarizing the moving picture based on the selected important shots. Accordingly, the sports moving picture are summarized by calculating levels of importance of shots in the sports moving picture based on extracted audio and image data and selecting important shots based on the calculated levels of importance, so that reliability of the summarized sports moving picture can increase and a user can generate a desired length of summarized sports moving picture.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for summarizing a moving picture of a sports game, such as a basketball game, based on scores. The method includes detecting score information of each shot of a moving picture of a sports game, calculating a degree of importance of each shot using the detected score information of each shot, and summarizing the moving picture using the calculated degree of importance of each shot. In the method, a moving picture of a sports game is summarized using degrees of importance of shots selected based on scores having important information regarding the sports game. Therefore, the reliability of summarization of the moving picture can be enhanced. Further, the amount of data calculation required for summarizing the moving picture can be reduced since the moving picture is summarized using changes in score information that has a small amount of data.