Terminal apparatus and information reproducing method

• US 20060156356A1
• Filed: 11/20/2003
• Published: 07/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Takao, Sato, Junichi, Itoh, Tomoaki, Takei, Ichiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,421,243 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/89
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/32 Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence

Abstract

In the present invention, a content receiving section 107 receives content from a content server 101 by means of broadcasting or communication, and playback by a playback section 109 is switched by a playback control section 108 between stored content stored in a storage section 103 and content received by content receiving section 107 based on at least one of stored content playback conditions and reception conditions of content received by means of broadcasting or communication.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a storage section that stores stored content;

a content receiving section that receives content by means of broadcasting or communication;

a received content storage section that stores received content;

a playback section that plays back said stored content or said received content; and

a playback control section that causes said playback section to switch between playing back said stored content and playing back said received content based on at least one of playback conditions of said stored content and reception conditions of said received content.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a content list management section that manages a content list storing at least one or more combinations of an address of content relating to a location within a predetermined area and said location;

a location detection section that detects current location information; and

a received content determination section that determines content that should be received from said content list based on said current location information;

wherein;

said content receiving section receives content relating to a current location determined by said received content determination section; and

said playback control section causes said playback section to switch between playing back that content and playing back said stored content.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

said location detection section detects a direction of movement or speed of movement of an apparatus main unit; and

said received content determination section predicts a playback time of day of content received by said content receiving section from a playback time period of content being played back by said playback section, and determines content relating to a movement destination location of an apparatus main unit at said predicted playback time of day to be content that should be received.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an attribute output section that records attribute information indicating an interest of a user and outputs said attribute information to said received content determination section, wherein said received content determination section determines content that should be received from said content list based on said current location information and said attribute information.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein part of information contained in stored content of said storage section is recorded in said attribute output section as said attribute information.

7. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a save instruction section that gives an instruction for saving or deletion of content of said received content storage section in accordance with operational input of a user.

8. The terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein part of information contained in content for which there is a save instruction from said save instruction section is recorded in said attribute output section as said attribute information.

6. (canceled)

9. An information playback method comprising:

a step of receiving content by means of broadcasting or communication;

a step of storing received content in a received content storage section; and

a step of switching between playing back stored content of a storage section that stores content and playing back said received content based on playback conditions of said stored content and reception conditions of said received content.

10. The information playback method according to claim 9, further comprising:

a step of detecting current location information; and

a step of determining content that should be received from a content list storing at least one or more combinations of an address of content relating to a location within a predetermined area and said location based on said current location information;

wherein content relating to said determined current location is received, and playback is switched between that content and said stored content.

11. The information playback method according to claim 9, wherein, when current location information is detected, direction of movement or speed of movement of an apparatus main unit is detected, a playback time of day of content to be received is predicted from a playback time period of content of said storage section being played back, and content relating to a movement destination location of said apparatus main unit at said predicted playback time of day is determined to be content that should be received.

12. The information playback method according to claim 10, further comprising a step of recording attribute information indicating an interest of a user, wherein, when content that should be received is determined, content that should be received is determined from said content list based on said current location information and said attribute information.

13. The information playback method according to claim 12, wherein part of information contained in stored content of said storage section is recorded as said attribute information.

15. The information playback method according to claim 9, further comprising a step of giving an instruction for saving or deletion of content of said received content storage section in accordance with operational input of a user.

16. The information playback method according to claim 15, wherein part of information contained in content for which there is a save instruction from a user is recorded as said attribute information.

14. (canceled)