CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE, CONTENTS REPRODUCING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20110022594A1
• Filed: 01/11/2007
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi, Sano, Akane, Inoue, Makoto, Komori, Akihiro, Takatsuka, Susumu, Tamori, Hirofumi, Sakai, Yuichi, Nakamura, Takatosshi, Takai, Motoyuki, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Sasaki, Toru, Shirai, Katsuya
• Application Number:
  US12/160,452
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022594A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0644 with display speed of moving landscape controlled by the user's performance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/40 Rhythm
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/395 Acceleration sensing or accelerometer use, e.g. 3D movement computation by integration of accelerometer data, angle sensing with respect to the vertical, i.e. gravity sensing. conductor baton movement sensing G10H2220/206, angle sensing without reference to gravity G10H2220/391; player body joint angle sensing G10H2220/321
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/135 Library retrieval index, i.e. using an indexing scheme to efficiently retrieve a music piece
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/155 Library update, i.e. making or modifying a musical database using musical parameters as indices data structures involving musical parameters G10H2240/005
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

Music content are reproduced in the order of the newest time information that has been registered. A music content database 7 has stored a plurality of music content. Each music content has been stored in the music content database 7 along with a time stamp that is time information that represents a time at which the music content was registered in the music content database 7. A CPU 3 creates play lists corresponding to, for example, tempos. The created play lists are stored in a play list database 8. The CPU 3 selects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection section 9 and selects music content in the order of the newest time information registered from the music content corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content are supplied to a decoder and amplification section 12 and reproduced by a head phone 14.

Claims

1. A content reproducing apparatus, comprising:

a content storage section which stores a plurality of content along with time stamps associated therewith;

a play list creation section which creates a play list to assign the plurality of content; and

a control section which reproduces the content assigned to the play list in an order based on the time stamps.

2. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the play list creation section creates play lists categorized corresponding to a characteristic of one of tempo, genre, artist, and year.

3. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

a tempo detection section which detects a user'"'"'s moving tempo,

wherein the control section selects a play list corresponding to the moving tempo from those categorized corresponding to the moving tempo and reproduces the content assigned to the selected play list.

4. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the time stamps are time information which represents times at which the content recorded in a record medium were ripped to the content storage section.

5. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the time stamps are time information that represents times at which the content were downloaded through a network.

6. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the time stamps are time information which represents times at which the content stored in the content storage section were encoded.

7. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the content assigned to the play list are categorized as a plurality of groups corresponding to the time stamps.

8. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 7,

wherein the control section reproduces content that belong to the group at random.

9. The content reproducing apparatus as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the content are those of music, sound, images, games, electronic books, and pictures.

10. A content reproducing method, comprising:

a content storage step of storing a plurality of content along with time stamps associated therewith;

a play list creation step of creating a play list to assign the plurality of content; and

a control step of reproducing the content assigned to the play list in an order based on the time stamps.

11. The content reproducing method as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the play list creation step is performed by creating play lists categorized corresponding to a characteristic of one of tempo, genre, artist, and year.

12. The content reproducing method as set forth in claim 11, further comprising:

a tempo detection step of detecting a user'"'"'s moving tempo,

wherein the control step is performed by selecting a play list corresponding to the moving tempo from those categorized corresponding to the moving tempo and reproducing the content assigned to the selected play list.

13. The content reproducing method as set forth in claim 10,

wherein the content assigned to the play list are categorized as a plurality of groups corresponding to the time stamps.

14. The content reproducing method as set forth in claim 13,

wherein the control step is performed by reproducing content that belong to the group at random.

15. A program which causes a computer to execute:

a content storage step of storing a plurality of content along with time stamps associated therewith;

a play list creation step of creating a play list to assign the plurality of content; and

a control step of reproducing the content assigned to the play list in an order based on the time stamps.