Program, recording medium, and reproducing apparatus

• US 10,645,424 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2016
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoshida, Susumu, Imaide, Takuya, Kato, Toshihiro, Watanabe, Akinobu, Sugimura, Naozumi, Shimoda, Nozomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung Q
• Application Number:
  US15/201,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20160316231A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,404 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• 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: H04N 21/2223 being a public access point, e.g. for downloading to or uploading from clients arrangements specially adapted to plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

The problem to be solved is to make it possible to download via a network, efficiently manage, retrieve, and reproduce an external content associated with a content recorded on a recording medium. To solve the problem, a program is used which controls reproduction of information located on a recording medium and related information. The program includes the steps of: obtaining from the outside specific information associated with predetermined information recorded on a recording medium; and obtaining medium identification information located on a recording medium; wherein if the specific information has been obtained, a storage unit in a reproducing apparatus is controlled to associate the specific information with the medium identification information for storage.

Claims

1. A reproducing apparatus on a user side connected to an external server on a provider side via a network comprising:

a first interface configured to receive first identification information associated with a first non-transitory recording medium to be inserted in a drive and second identification information associated with a second non-transitory recording medium to be inserted in the drive, the first identification information being related to a first audio and/or video content stored in the first non-transitory recording medium and the second identification information being related to a second audio and/or video content stored in the second non-transitory recording medium;

a memory configured to store the first identification information and the second identification information received via the first interface;

a second interface configured to download a specific audio and/or video content from the external server, the second interface being different from the first interface; and

a controller,

wherein, when both the first non-transitory recording medium and the second non-transitory recording medium are not inserted in the drive, the controller, based on the first identification information and the second identification information read out from the memory, is configured to;

output data for displaying a first icon to allow a user to select a first specific audio and/or video content related to the first audio and/or video content and a second icon to allow the user to select a second specific audio and/or video content related to the second audio and/or video content; and

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in response to a user instruction for selecting one of the first icon and the second icon, control the second interface to download one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content corresponding to the selected icon from the external server.

2. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when the one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content is downloading, the controller is configured to allow the reproducing apparatus to start to reproduce the one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content.

3. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the memory is configured to store the downloaded one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content with auxiliary information corresponding thereto.

4. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the auxiliary information is at least one of a sign and/or text information.

5. The reproducing apparatus according to claim claim 4,

wherein, when both the first non-transitory recording medium and the second non-transitory recording medium are not inserted in the drive, the controller is configured to retrieve the downloaded one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content based on the auxiliary information.

6. The reproducing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a display configured to display the output data including the first icon and the second icon.

7. A method of reproducing audio and/or video content on a user side connected to an external server on a provider side via a network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first interface, first identification information associated with a first non-transitory recording medium to be inserted in a drive and second identification information associated with a second non-transitory recording medium to be inserted in the drive, the first identification information being related to a first audio and/or video content stored in the first non-transitory recording medium and the second identification information being related to a second audio and/or video content stored in the second non-transitory recording medium;

storing, in a memory, the first identification information and the second identification information received via the first interface;

when both the first non-transitory recording medium and the second non-transitory recording medium are not inserted in the drive, based on the first identification information and the second identification information read out from the memory, outputting data to display a first icon to allow a user to select a first specific audio and/or video content related to the first audio and/or video content and a second icon to allow the user to select a second specific audio and/or video content related to the second audio and/or video content, and

in response to a user instruction for selecting one of the first icon and the second icon, downloading, by a second interface different from the first interface, one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content corresponding to the selected icon from the external server.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

when the one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content is downloading, starting to reproduce the one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing, in the memory, the downloaded one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content with auxiliary information corresponding thereto.

10. The method according to claim 9,

wherein the auxiliary information is at least one of a sign and/or text information.

11. The method according to claim 10,

wherein, when both the first non-transitory recording medium and the second non-transitory recording medium are not inserted in the drive, the downloaded one of the first specific audio and/or video content and the second specific audio and/or video content is retrieved based on the auxiliary information.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

displaying, at the user side, the output data including the first icon and the second icon.