Audio System
First Claim
1. An audio system connectable to a portable audio player that stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that plays back the stored audio contents, the audio system comprising:
- an audio content narrowing unit configured to narrow the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player down to a processing target audio content in accordance with an attribute of the audio content selected by a user;
a preset information registering unit configured to register, in response to a user preset registration operation, the narrowing procedure performed by the audio content narrowing unit as preset information; and
a preset playback controlling unit configured to perform, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the narrowing procedure that is registered as the preset information, and to cause the portable audio player to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player.
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Abstract
In one aspect of the present invention, an audio system connectable to a portable audio player for playing audio contents includes an audio content narrowing unit for narrowing the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player down to a processing target audio content according to an attribute of the audio content selected by a user, a preset information registering unit for registering, in response to a user preset registration operation, a procedure of the narrowing performed by the audio content narrowing unit as preset information, and a preset playback controlling unit for performing, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the procedure of the narrowing that is registered as the preset information, and causing the portable audio player to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player.
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20 Claims
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1. An audio system connectable to a portable audio player that stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that plays back the stored audio contents, the audio system comprising:
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an audio content narrowing unit configured to narrow the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player down to a processing target audio content in accordance with an attribute of the audio content selected by a user; a preset information registering unit configured to register, in response to a user preset registration operation, the narrowing procedure performed by the audio content narrowing unit as preset information; and a preset playback controlling unit configured to perform, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the narrowing procedure that is registered as the preset information, and to cause the portable audio player to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 11)
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5. An audio system connectable to a portable audio player that stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that plays back the stored audio contents, the audio system comprising:
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a playback controlling unit configured to cause the connected portable audio player to play back the audio contents; a preset information registering unit configured to register, in response to a user preset registration operation, an attribute of an audio content currently played back by the connected portable audio player as preset information; and a preset playback controlling unit configured to cause, in response to a user preset playback operation, the portable audio player to play back an audio content having the attribute that is registered as the preset information. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 12)
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8. An audio system connectable to a plurality of portable audio players that store audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that play back the stored audio contents, the audio system comprising:
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a preset information storing unit configured to store, for each of the plurality of portable audio players, preset information in which content identification information that specifies a specific audio content stored in the portable audio player is registered in association with player identification information that specifies the portable audio player; a connected player identifying unit configured to identify the portable audio player connected to the audio system; a preset registering unit configured to associate, in response to a user preset registration operation, the content identification information that specifies the audio content selected by a user from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player with the player identification information that specifies the portable audio player identified by the connected player identifying unit, and to register the content identification information and the associated player identification information in the preset information; and a preset playback controlling unit configured to cause, in response to a user preset playback operation, the connected portable audio player to play back an audio content specified by the content identification information that is registered in the preset information in association with the player identification information that specifies the portable audio player identified by the connected player identifying unit. - View Dependent Claims (9, 13)
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10. An audio system connectable to a portable audio player that stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and that plays back the stored audio contents, the audio system comprising:
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a preset information registering unit configured to register, in response to a user preset registration operation, content identification information that specifies an audio content selected by a user from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player as preset information; a preset playback controlling unit configured to cause, in response to a user preset playback operation, the connected portable audio player to play back an audio content specified by the content identification information that is registered as the preset information; and a preset information invalidating unit configured to invalidate the preset information if the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player have changed. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A playback controlling method for an audio system connectable to a portable audio player, which stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and which plays back the stored audio contents, to control the playback performed by the connected portable audio player, the method comprising the steps of:
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narrowing the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player down to a processing target audio content in accordance with an attribute of the audio content selected by a user; registering, in response to a user preset registration operation, a narrowing procedure performed at the narrowing step as preset information; and performing, in response to a user preset playback operation, a narrowing procedure equivalent to the narrowing procedure that is registered as the preset information, and causing the portable audio player to play back the audio content narrowed down from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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16. A playback controlling method for an audio system connectable to a portable audio player, which stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and which plays back the stored audio contents, to control the playback performed by the connected portable audio player, the method comprising the steps of:
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causing the connected portable audio player to play back the audio contents; registering, in response to a user preset registration operation, an attribute of an audio content currently played back by the connected portable audio player as preset information; and causing, in response to a user preset playback operation, the portable audio player to play back an audio content having the attribute that is registered as the preset information. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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17. A playback controlling method for an audio system connectable to a portable audio player, which stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and which plays back the stored audio contents, to control the playback performed by the connected portable audio player, the method comprising the steps of:
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identifying the portable audio player connected to the audio system; associating, in response to a user preset registration operation, content identification information that specifies an audio content selected by a user from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player with player identification information that specifies the identified portable audio player, and registering the content identification information and the associated player identification information as the preset information; and causing, in response to a user preset playback operation, the connected portable audio player to play back an audio content specified by the content identification information that is registered as the preset information in association with the player identification information that specifies the connected portable audio player.
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18. A playback controlling method for an audio system connectable to a portable audio player, which stores audio files or both audio files and playlists of the audio files as audio contents, and which plays back the stored audio contents, to control the playback performed by the connected portable audio player, the method comprising the steps of:
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registering, in response to a user preset registration operation, content identification information that specifies an audio content selected by a user from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player as preset information; retrieving, in response to a user preset playback operation, an audio content specified by the content identification information that is registered as the preset information from the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player, and causing the portable audio player to play back the retrieved audio content; and invalidating the preset information if the audio contents stored in the connected portable audio player have changed.
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Specification