INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20090295998A1
• Filed: 05/27/2009
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Nariaki, Nobori, Fujio, Tokashiki, Mamoru, Kohno, Michinari
• Application Number:
  US12/472,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20090295998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/565
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including a first content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce first content data, a second content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce second content data, a display control unit to generate a multiple image for displaying a first image reproduced by the first content reproduction unit and a second image reproduced by the second content reproduction unit on one screen, a display unit to display the multiple image generated by the display control unit, and an operation processing unit to cause the display control unit to change at least one of a position, a size and a transparency of the first image or the second image according to operation information input by a user.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a first content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce first content data;

a second content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce second content data;

a display control unit to generate a multiple image for displaying a first image reproduced by the first content reproduction unit and a second image reproduced by the second content reproduction unit on one screen;

a display unit to display the multiple image generated by the display control unit; and

an operation processing unit to cause the display control unit to change at least one of a position, a size and a transparency of the first image or the second image according to operation information input by a user.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the display control unit makes the second image transparent so as to allow the first image overlapping the second image to be visible when changing the position or the size of the second image.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit to receive content recommendation information; and

a content selection unit to select one of the first content data acquired by the first content reproduction unit and the second content data acquired by the second content reproduction unit based on the content recommendation information received by the communication unit.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the content recommendation information is information related to a content recommended by a user using another information processing device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein

the content recommendation information is information related to a content recommended by a content provider server holding a plurality of content data.

6. The information processing device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a connection status acquisition unit to acquire a list of users currently using other information processing devices.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6, wherein

the content selection unit selects content data of a content currently watched by a user specified from the list of users acquired by the connection status acquisition unit as the second content data.

8. A display method comprising the steps of:

acquiring first content data and reproducing a first image;

acquiring second content data and reproducing a second image;

generating a multiple image for displaying the reproduced first image and the reproduced second image on one screen;

displaying the generated multiple image;

accepting operation information input by a user; and

changing at least one of a position, a size and a transparency of the first image or the second image according to the input operation information.

9. A program causing a computer controlling an information processing device to function as:

a first content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce first content data;

a second content reproduction unit to acquire and reproduce second content data;

a display control unit to generate a multiple image for displaying a first image reproduced by the first content reproduction unit and a second image reproduced by the second content reproduction unit on one screen;

a display unit to display the multiple image generated by the display control unit; and

an operation processing unit to cause the display control unit to change at least one of a position, a size and a transparency of the first image or the second image according to operation information input by a user.