INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20070255708A1
• Filed: 04/20/2007
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ogata, Shin, Morita, Susumu, Sugawara, Taku, Morita, Toshihiro, Shirai, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,707,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of contents includes: a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other; a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data; and a selection means for selecting a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed. The selection means selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of contents, comprising:

a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other;

a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data; and

a selection means for selecting a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed,

wherein the selection means selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the selection means randomly selects, as the second content, one of contents having attribute data that is stored to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first storage means also stores contents and reproduction history of the contents so as to correspond to each other, and

the selection means selects, as the second content, one of contents having attribute data that is stored to be associated with the attribute data of the first content on the basis of the reproduction history of the contents.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an editing means for associating the attribute data stored in the second storage means with one another on the basis of a user'"'"'s operation,

wherein the selection means preferentially selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data associated with the attribute data of the first content by the editing means, among contents having attribute data that is stored to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the selection means stores a selection order of the selected second content as a playlist.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transfer means for transferring the second content selected by the selection means to another information processing apparatus,

wherein the selection means selects the second content on the basis of a data amount of the second content until a storage capacity of another information processing apparatus becomes less than a predetermined threshold value.

7. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that includes a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other and a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data and controls reproduction of the contents, comprising the step of:

selecting, as a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

8. A program causing an information processing apparatus, which includes a first storage means for storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other and a second storage means for storing association among the attribute data and controls reproduction of the contents, to execute processing including:

selecting, as a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage means so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.

9. An information processing apparatus that controls reproduction of contents, comprising:

a first storage unit storing contents and attribute data indicating predetermined attributes of the contents so as to correspond to each other;

a second storage unit storing association among the attribute data; and

a selection unit selecting a second content to be reproduced subsequent to a first content which is being reproduced or whose reproduction has been instructed,

wherein the selection unit selects, as the second content, a content having attribute data that is stored in the second storage unit so as to be associated with the attribute data of the first content.