REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCTION METHOD

• US 20110090406A1
• Filed: 06/08/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: KOSHINO, Naozumi, MORIOKA, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/706
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811

Abstract

According to one embodiment, when receiving a reproduction instruction, a reproduction apparatus performs image display based on second image information acquired through a network. When the reproduction apparatus receives a stop instruction while performing the image display based on the second image information, the reproduction apparatus performs the image display based on received first image information after performing the image display for a predetermined time based on third image information.

Claims

1. A reproduction apparatus comprising:

a first receiver configured to receive first image information;

a second receiver configured to receive second image information, first control information providing an instruction to reproduce the second image information, and second control information providing an instruction to stop the reproduction of the second image information through a network; and

a controller configured to perform image display based on the second image information when the first control information is received, or to perform image display based on the first image information after image display is performed based on third image information when the second control information is received while the image display is performed based on the second image information.

2. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform the image display based on the first image information when the first control information is not received within a predetermined time after the image display is performed based on the third image information.

3. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform image display of one of predetermined still image information and moving image information as the third image information.

4. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform image display of the second image information as the third image information, the second image information being displayed before the second control information is received.

5. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform the image display based on the first image information after the image display is performed based on the third image information upon receiving the second control information when the second image information used in the image display corresponds to a pre-defined type, and

the controller is configured to perform the image display based on the first image information upon receiving the second control information when the second image information used in the image display does not correspond to the pre-defined type.

6. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to change a time, during which the image display is performed based on the third image information, according to a type of the second image information used in the image display.

7. The reproduction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to measure a shortest time until the first control information is received since the second control information is received, and set a time during which the image display is performed based on the third image information according to the shortest time.

8. A reproduction method comprising:

receiving first image information;

receiving second image information through a network; and

performing image display based on the second image information when a reproduction instruction is received, and performing image display based on the first image information after image display is performed based on third image information when a stop instruction is received while the image display is performed based on the second image information.