Player and playing method and program

• US 10,459,683 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2015
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takatsuka, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Flanders, Andrew C
• Application Number:
  US14/685,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20150220303A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data

Abstract

A player includes a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data, and a play control section configured to: cause the playing section to play contents data based on a first list selected from the multiple lists, determine whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the playing section or not, extract attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result, select a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information from the multiple lists, and control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data on the selected second list.

Claims

1. A player comprising:

circuitry configured to

control to play at least a portion of a plurality of content data based upon an input signal received via at least one bus,

control to transmit an output signal via the at least one bus to display attribute information of at least one of the content data,

determine whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without receiving user input via the at least one bus after playing of the portion of the content data has ended, the predetermined period of time being a time during which a user can provide user input for performing an operation input on the player,

control to automatically play one of the plurality of the content data, after it has been determined that the predetermined period of time after playing of the portion of the content data has elapsed with no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, and

display a playlist including the plurality of the content data generated by using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data,

wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of the content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data, and

wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

2. The player according to claim 1, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

3. The player according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.

10. The player according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to identify the plurality of content data based on attribute information of the user-selected content data being played according to similarity of corresponding attribute information.

11. The player according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined period of time is greater than three seconds.

12. The player according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to display an indication informing the user as to the automatic playing.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

controlling to play at least a portion of a plurality of content data based upon an input signal received via at least one bus,

controlling to transmit an output signal via the at least one bus to display attribute information of at least one of the content data,

determining whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without receiving user input via the at least one bus after playing of the portion of the content data has ended, the predetermined period of time being a time during which a user can provide user input for performing an operation input on the player,

controlling to automatically play one of the plurality of the content data after it has been determined that the predetermined period of time after playing of the portion of the content data has ended with no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, and

displaying a playlist including the plurality of the content data generated by using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data,

wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of the content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data, and

wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 4, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 4, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.

7. A method of causing a player to play content data, comprising:

controlling to play at least a portion of a plurality of content data based upon an input signal received via at least one bus,

controlling to transmit an output signal via the at least one bus to display attribute information of at least one of the content data,

determining, by the circuitry of the player, whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without receiving user input via the at least one bus after playing of the portion of the content data has ended, the predetermined period of time being a time during which a user can provide user input for performing an operation input on the player,

controlling to automatically play one of the plurality of the content data after it has been determined that the predetermined period of time after playing of the portion of the content data has ended with no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, and

displaying a playlist including the plurality of the content data generated by using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data,

wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of the content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data, and

wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.