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Control device, control method, and control system

  • US 20090319900A1
  • Filed: 06/19/2009
  • Published: 12/24/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A control device comprising:

  • a communication unit configured to communicate, via a network, with a content supply device supplying content and a plurality of reproduction devices reproducing the content transmitted from the content supply device;

    an operation unit;

    a display unit; and

    a control unit configured to be supplied with a signal from the operation unit and control the communication unit and the display unit,wherein the control unit has a content list display state in which a content list received from the content supply device is displayed on a screen of the display unit, a device list display state in which respective thumbnail images of the plurality of reproduction devices are displayed on the screen in accordance with device information received from the plurality of reproduction devices, and an operation panel display state in which an operation panel is displayed to have a content item of the content list reproduced by one of the plurality of reproduction devices set as a control target in the device list display state, andwherein the thumbnail image of the set reproduction device is displayed in the content list display state and the operation panel display state.

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