MOVING PICTURE SCENE DETECTION SYSTEM

A moving picture scene detection system for detecting a distinctive scene from moving picture data. In the system, the attribute data of the coded data stored in a data storing unit is decoded by a attribute data decoding unit, to produce the decoded attribute data. A distinctive candidate scene in the moving pictures is detected by a candidate scene detecting unit on the basis of the decoded attribute data. The candidate scene and the image data for several frames preceding and subsequent to the candidate scene are decoded by an image data decoding unit, and displayed by an image data display unit. The type of the candidate scene and the position thereof in the moving pictures are stored in the data storing unit as edit data.