Reproduction device and display control method

• US 10,642,447 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsukazaki, Hideo, Asaka, Kotaro, Kinouchi, Takashi, Takatsuka, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Hailu, Tadesse
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hope, Darrin
• Application Number:
  US13/485,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20120240047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,896 Days
• Field of Search: 715716, 715825
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a playback screen containing at least one attribute data among the plurality of attribute data assigned to the content data when reproducing the content data and, when one attribute data among the attribute data composing the playback screen is selected, switch the display content of the content from the playback screen to the list relating to the selected attribute data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

during reproduction of a content from among a plurality of contents by a reproduction device, displaying on a display of the reproduction device a first screen comprising attribute information for the content being reproduced, the attribute information for the content being reproduced comprising a first attribute and a second attribute, wherein the attribute information in the first screen includes a first value, for the first attribute, of the content being reproduced and a second value, for the second attribute, of the content being reproduced, and the first screen comprises a first selectable item for the first value for the first attribute and a second selectable item for the second value for the second attribute;

detecting a user interaction with the first screen when the first screen is displayed on the display;

in response to determining that the user interaction with the first screen is a selection by a user of the first selectable item for the first value for the first attribute in the first screen,

determining content to be included in a first set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a second screen comprising a first listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the first set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the first attribute;

in response to determining that the user interaction with the first screen is a selection by the user of the second selectable item for the second value for the second attribute in the first screen,

determining content to be included in a second set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the second value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a third screen comprising a second listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the second set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the second attribute; and

continuing the reproduction of the content being reproduced after switching the display from the first screen to the second screen or the third screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the first value.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the selection by the user of the first selectable item is a selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen during display of the first screen; and

determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the first value comprises determining the one or more contents having the first value when the selection by the user of the first selectable item is the selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the content being reproduced is a song, and

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises;

determining an album of the song; and

determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the same album as the album of the song; and

including the one or more contents having the same album in the first set.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein switching the display from the first screen to the third screen comprising the second set comprises displaying on the display a previously-displayed screen from which the content being reproduced was selected by the user for reproduction, the previously-displayed screen comprising the second set of one or more contents, the second set of one or more contents comprising the content being reproduced.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second screen displays the first value for the first attribute but not the first selectable item corresponding to the first value.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the third screen displays the second value for the second attribute but not the second selectable item corresponding to the second value.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first value comprises text identifying the first value; and

displaying on the display of the reproduction device the first screen comprising attribute information for the content being reproduced during reproduction of the content comprises;

determining, for the first value, whether a number of characters included in the text of the first value is greater than a first number;

in response to determining that the number of characters included in the text of the first value is greater than the first number, scrolling a display of the text of the first value in the first screen, the scrolling comprising displaying a first portion of the text of the first value at a first time during display of the first screen and displaying a second portion of the text of the first value at a second time during display of the first screen.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the attribute different than the first attribute is the second attribute.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the attribute different than the second attribute is the first attribute.

11. A reproduction device comprising:

a display;

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method, the method comprising;

during reproduction of a content from among a plurality of contents by the reproduction device, displaying on the display of the reproduction device a first screen comprising attribute information for the content being reproduced, wherein the attribute information in the first screen includes a first value of a first attribute and a second value of a second attribute, and the first screen comprises a first selectable item for the first value of the first attribute and a second selectable item for the second value of the second attribute;

in response to detecting a user interaction with the first screen that is a selection by a user of the first selectable item for the first value of the first attribute in the first screen when the first screen is displayed on the display,

determining content to be included in a first set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a second screen comprising a first listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the first set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the first attribute;

in response to detecting a user interaction with the first screen that is a selection by the user of the second selectable item for the second value of the second attribute in the first screen when the first screen is displayed on the display,

determining content to be included in a second set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the second value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a third screen comprising a second listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the second set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the second attribute; and

continuing the reproduction of the content being reproduced after switching the display from the first screen to the second screen or the third screen.

12. The reproduction device of claim 11, wherein:

the selection by the user of the first selectable item is a selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen during display of the first screen; and

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises, when the selection by the user of the first selectable item is the selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen, determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the first value.

13. The reproduction device of claim 11, wherein:

the content being reproduced is a song, and

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises;

determining an album of the song; and

determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the same album as the album of the song; and

including the one or more contents having the same album in the first set.

14. The reproduction device of claim 11, wherein switching the display from the first screen to the third screen comprising the second set comprises displaying on the display a previously-displayed screen from which the content being reproduced was selected by the user for reproduction, the previously-displayed screen comprising the second set of one or more contents, the second set of one or more contents comprising the content being reproduced.

15. The reproduction device of claim 11, wherein the second screen displays the first value for the first attribute but not the first selectable item corresponding to the first value and the third screen displays the second value for the second attribute but not the second selectable item corresponding to the second value.

16. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

during reproduction of a content from among a plurality of contents by a reproduction device, displaying on a display of the reproduction device a first screen comprising attribute information for the content being reproduced, wherein the attribute information in the first screen includes a first value of a first attribute and a second value of a second attribute, and the first screen comprises a first selectable item for the first value of the first attribute and a second selectable item for the second value of the second attribute;

in response to detecting a user interaction with the first screen that is a selection by a user of the first selectable item for the first value of the first attribute in the first screen when the first screen is displayed on the display,

determining content to be included in a first set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a second screen comprising a first listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the first set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the first attribute;

in response to detecting a user interaction with the first screen that is a selection by the user of the second selectable item for the second value of the second attribute in the first screen when the first screen is displayed on the display,

determining content to be included in a second set of one or more contents of the plurality of contents based at least in part on the second value of the content being reproduced, that was selected by the user; and

switching the display from the first screen to a third screen comprising a second listing of one or more values corresponding to the one or more contents in the second set, wherein each of the one or more values is associated with an attribute different than the second attribute; and

continuing the reproduction of the content being reproduced after switching the display from the first screen to the second screen or the third screen.

17. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 16, wherein:

the selection by the user of the first selectable item is a selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen during display of the first screen; and

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises, when the selection by the user of the first selectable item is a selection by the user of text of the first value in the first screen, determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the first value.

18. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 16, wherein:

the content being reproduced is a song, and

determining content to be included in the first set based at least in part on the first value of the content being reproduced comprises;

determining an album of the song; and

determining, from the plurality of contents, one or more contents having the same album as the album of the song; and

including the one or more contents having the same album in the first set.

19. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage of claim 16, wherein the second screen displays the first value for the first attribute but not the first selectable item corresponding to the first value and the third screen displays the second value for the second attribute but not the second selectable item corresponding to the second value.