PLAYER AND PLAYING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20100161091A1
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKATSUKA, Susumu
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,372 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data

Abstract

A player includes a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data, and a play control section configured to: cause the playing section to play contents data based on a first list selected from the multiple lists, determine whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the playing section or not, extract attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result, select a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information from the multiple lists, and control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data on the selected second list.

Claims

1. A player comprising:

a reproduction section configured to play content data; and

a control section configured to

extract attribute information of a predetermined content data being played by the reproduction section,

identify, based on the extracted attribute information, a playlist having a plurality of content data registered thereto,

select content data from the identified playlist, and

control the reproduction section to play the selected content data after playing the predetermined content data.

2. The player according to claim 1, wherein the control section controls playing of selected content data according to the identified playlist and the extracted attribute information.

3. The player according to claim 1, wherein the extracted attribute information includes rating information.

4. The player according to claim 1, wherein the identified playlist corresponds to a history of play of content data.

5. The player according to claim 1, wherein the identified playlist includes most recently acquired content data.

6. The player according to claim 5, wherein the most recently acquired content data is subscription content data.

7. The player according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a melody, a tempo, content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

8. A computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer readable instructions when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

playing a predetermined content data;

extracting attribute information of the predetermined content data being played;

identifying, based on the extracted attribute information, a playlist having a plurality of content data registered thereto;

selecting content data from the identified playlist; and

controlling playback of the selected content data after playing the predetermined content data.

9. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein playing of the selected content data is controlled according to the identified playlist and the extracted attribute information.

10. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the extracted attribute information includes rating information.

11. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the identified playlist corresponds to a history of play of content data.

12. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the identified playlist includes most recently acquired content data.

13. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the most recently acquired content data is subscription content data.

14. The computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a melody, a tempo, content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

15. A method of causing a player to play content data, comprising:

playing, at a reproduction section, a predetermined content data;

extracting, at a control section, attribute information of the predetermined content data being played;

identifying, at the control section and based on the extracted attribute information, a playlist having a plurality of content data registered thereto;

selecting, at the control section, content data from the identified playlist; and

controlling, at the control section, playback of the selected content data by the reproduction section after playing the predetermined content data.