Reproducing apparatus, data processing method, and reproduction system

• US 20060269229A1
• Filed: 05/11/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kinouchi, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 9,064,543 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/290
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42661 for reading from or writing on a magnetic storage medium, e.g. hard disk drive
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44231 Monitoring of peripheral device or external card, e.g. to detect processing problems in a handheld device or the failure of an external recording device configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network H04L12/2823; monitoring the status of connected device in data switched networks H04L43/0817
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4436 Power management, e.g. shutting down unused components of the receiver power management in computer systems G06F1/3203; hibernate or awake process in computer systems G06F9/4418
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

A content data recording and reproducing apparatus including a content data output device, enabling the content to be reproduced to be determined while displaying a content list on an external output device, communicates with the output device, and controls the output device to output data. The apparatus has a data line configured to transfer data among connected parts, a recording part on which content data is recorded, a reproduction and output part configured to reproduce and outputting the content data transferred from the recording part, an interface for communicating with the output device, an operation part connected to the data line, a display configured to display operation screen data including attribute information of the content data, and a control part configured to transmit the content data read out from the recording part to the output device via the interface based on an instruction input from the operation part and suspend the display of the operation screen when communication with the output device is established.

Claims

1. A reproducing apparatus comprising:

a data line configured to transfer data among connected parts,

a recording part on which content data is recorded,

a reproduction and output part configured to reproduce the content data transferred from the recording part via the data line and output the same,

an interface for communicating with an external output device,

an operation part connected to the data line,

a display configured to display operation screen data including attribute information of the content data, and

a control part configured to transmit the content data read out from the recording part to the external output device via the interface based on an instruction input from the operation part and suspend the display of the operation screen onto the display, when communication with the external output device is established via the interface.

2. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the control part makes the reproduction and output part reproduce the content data read out from the recording means based on an instruction input from the operation part and output the same, when judging that communication with the external output device has not been established.

3. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the control part suspends the display of the selection screen on the display and makes the external output device transmit the operation screen data through the interface when judging that communication with the external output device has been established.

4. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the control part updates data relating to the operation screen based on the instruction from the operation part.

5. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein the operation display data includes list data indicating a plurality of content data.

6. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein the control part reads out the selected content data and makes the external output device transmit the read selected content data through the interface when receiving an operation command for selecting predetermined content data from the list data from the operation part.

7. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein

the recording part records bookmark data indicating whether each of the content data has been bookmarked and

the control part generates a list of bookmarked data as operation screen data based on the bookmark data read out from the recording part and makes the external output device transmit the operation screen data through the interface when establishing communication with the external output device.

8. A reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein

the recording part records image data, and

the control part transmits the image data read out from the recording part to the external output device through the interface linked with the operation screen data and makes the external output device display an operation screen in accordance with the operation screen data having an image according to the image data as a background.

9. A data processing method executed by a content reproducing apparatus including a display, the method including:

establishing communication with an external output device,

suspending the display of attribute information of content data onto the display,

reading the content data designated by an operation instruction from a recording part when receiving the operation instruction and transmitting the same to the external output device by the communication established at the establishing, and

controlling the reproduction output by the external output device of the content data transmitted at the reading.

10. A content reproduction system configured by a content reproducing apparatus and an external output device communicating with the content reproducing apparatus, wherein

the reproducing apparatus is configured by

a data line configured to transfer data among connected parts,

a recording part on which content data is recorded,

a reproduction and output part configured to reproduce the content data transferred from the recording part via the data line and output the same,

an interface for communicating with the external output device,

an operation part connected to the data line,

a display configured to display operation screen data including attribute information of the content data, and

a control part configured to transmit the content data read out from the recording part to the external output device via the interface based on an instruction input from the operation part and suspend the display of the operation screen onto the display, when communication with the external output device is established via the interface, and

the external output device is configured by

an input part receiving as input the data from the reproducing apparatus via the interface, and

an output part configured to output the content data transmitted from the reproducing apparatus via the interface.