Content Replay System, Control Device and Replay Device

• US 20120109347A1
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
• Inventors: Maekawa, Masahide
• Application Number:
  US13/223,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20120109347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10

Abstract

A radio communication terminal generates a first play list in which plural content to be played is listed in a play order, conforming to a rule indicated by sort information shared by a content play device, based on attribute information indicative of a content attribute. The terminal accepts the operation of designating head play content and the operation of changing the play order with the use of a first play list, designates the content, and transmits a play instruction. The content play device generates a second play list in which the content is listed in the play order, conforming to the rule indicated by the sort information, based on play instruction and the attribute information, and sequentially plays the content conforming to the second play list with the start of the head play content.

Claims

1. A content play system, comprising:

a play device that acquires content stored in a storage device to play the content; and

a controller that controls the play device through communication,

wherein the controller includes;

a first attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information indicative of an attribute of the content to be played by the play device;

a first rule acquisition unit that acquires rule information indicative of a rule to be followed in determining a play order of a plurality of content to be played by the play device;

a first play list generation unit that generates a first play list in which the plurality of content is listed in the play order according to the rule indicated by the rule information acquired by the first rule acquisition unit, on the basis of the attribute information acquired by the first attribute information acquisition unit;

an acceptance unit that accepts operation for designating the content to be first played with the use of the first play list generated by the first play list generation unit; and

a play instruction transmission unit that designates the content to be first played, which has been accepted by the acceptance unit, and transmits a play instruction for the plurality of content, and

wherein the play device includes;

a second rule acquisition unit that acquires the rule information indicative of a rule common to that acquired by the first rule acquisition unit;

a play instruction acquisition unit that acquires a play instruction transmitted by the play instruction transmission unit;

a second attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information indicative of an attribute of the content to be played according to the play instruction acquired by the play instruction acquisition unit; and

a play unit that sequentially acquires and plays the plurality of content in the play order according to the rule indicated by the rule information acquired by the second rule acquisition unit with the start of the designated content to be first played, on the basis of the attribute information acquired by the second attribute information acquisition unit.

2. The content play system according to claim 1,

wherein the play device further includes a second play list generation unit that generates a second play list in which the plurality of content is listed in a play order conforming to the common rule, on the basis of the attribute information acquired by the second attribute information acquisition unit, and

wherein the play unit sequentially acquires and plays the plurality of content in the play order conforming to the second play list generated by the second play list generation unit with the start of the content to be first played.

3. The content play system according to claim 1,

wherein the acceptance unit accepts a change instruction for changing the play order in addition to the content to be first played,

wherein the first play list generation unit generates the first play list reflecting substance of the change instruction,

wherein the play instruction transmission unit designates the substance of the change instruction in addition to the content to be first played, and transmits the play instruction, and

wherein the play unit sequentially plays the plurality of content in the play order reflecting the substance of the change instruction designated by the play instruction.

6. The content play system according to claim 2,

wherein the acceptance unit accepts a change instruction for changing the play order in addition to the content to be first played,

wherein the first play list generation unit generates the first play list reflecting substance of the change instruction,

wherein the play instruction transmission unit designates the substance of the change instruction in addition to the content to be first played, and transmits the play instruction, and

wherein the play unit sequentially plays the plurality of content in the play order reflecting the substance of the change instruction designated by the play instruction.

4. A controller for controlling a play device which acquires and plays content stored in a storage device through communication, the controller comprising:

an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information indicative of an attribute of the content to be played by the play device;

a rule acquisition unit that acquires rule information indicative of a rule common between the controller and the play device to be followed in determining a play order of a plurality of content to be played by the play device, and shared by the controller and the play device;

a play list generation unit that generates a play list in which the plurality of content is listed in a play order in conformity to the rule indicated by the rule information acquired by the rule acquisition unit, on the basis of the attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquisition unit;

an acceptance unit that accepts operation for designating the content to be first played with the use of the play list generated by the play list generation unit; and

a play instruction transmission unit that designates the content to be first played, which has been accepted by the acceptance unit, and transmits a play instruction for the plurality of content.

5. A play device that is controlled by a controller through communication, and acquires and plays content stored in a storage device under the control, the play device comprising:

a rule acquisition unit acquires rule information indicative of a rule common between the controller and the play device to be followed in determining a play order of a plurality of content to be played by the play device, and shared by the controller and the play device;

a play instruction acquisition unit that acquires, when content to be first played is designated by the controller with the use of a play list in which the plurality of content is listed in a play order in conformity to the common rule, a play instruction designating the content to be first played from the controller;

an attribute information acquisition unit that acquires attribute information indicative of an attribute of the content to be played according to a play instruction acquired by the play instruction acquisition unit;

a play list generation unit that generates the play list in which the plurality of content is listed in the play order in conformity to the common rule, on the basis of the attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquisition unit; and

a play unit that sequentially acquires and plays the plurality of content in the play order conforming to the play list generated by the play list generation unit with the start of the designated content to be first played.