INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PLAYLIST CREATION METHOD, AND PLAYLIST CREATION PROGRAM

• US 20120250934A1
• Filed: 03/23/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SHIRAISHI, Ayumi
• Granted Patent: US 9,817,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4387 by the use of 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 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes a control portion configured to allow a user to hand-draw and input a picture as a tag to be associated with user-designated contents so as to create a playlist of the contents based on degrees of similarity between the pictures associated with the contents as the tags thereof.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising a control portion configured to allow a user to hand-draw and input a picture as a tag to be associated with user-designated contents so as to create a playlist of the contents based on degrees of similarity between the pictures associated with said contents as the tags thereof.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control portion determines whether the pictures associated as the tags with said contents are similar therebetween based on said degrees of similarity so as to register in the same playlist the contents having the pictures associated as the tags and determined to be similar therebetween.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control portion selects for each playlist one of the pictures associated as the tags with the contents registered in the playlists so as to permit a display portion to display a table of the pictures selected per playlist.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, while permitting said display portion to display said table, said control portion sets a display mode for the picture selected per playlist on the basis of related information about the playlist of interest.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, based on the number of songs registered per playlist, said control portion sets a display size for the picture selected for each playlist.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said control portion displays the picture selected per playlist using an animation based on a description indicated by the picture selected for the playlist of interest.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, if said user designates a plurality of pictures from those each selected per playlist while said display portion is being caused to display said table, said control portion creates a playlist combining a plurality of playlists corresponding to the designated plurality of pictures.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, while reproducing a given content, said control portion receives the hand-drawn input of said picture via an operation portion, and associates the hand-drawn input picture as the tag with the content being reproduced.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, while displaying related information about a given content on a display portion, said control portion receives the hand-drawn input of said picture via an operation portion, and associates the hand-drawn input picture as the tag with the content of which the related information is being displayed.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control portion transmits the created playlist together with the picture associated as the tag with the contents registered in the playlist in question to an external apparatus via a communication portion.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the picture is hand-drawn and input by said user as a search key, said control portion searches the pictures associated with the contents as the tags for a picture similar to the picture as said search key based on the degrees of similarity between the associated pictures on the one hand and said picture as said search key on the other hand, so as to select a playlist in which the contents having the searched-for picture associated therewith as the tag are registered.

12. A playlist creation method for use with an information processing apparatus, comprising:

causing said information processing apparatus to allow a user to hand-draw and input a picture as a tag to be associated with user-designated contents; and

causing said information processing apparatus to create a playlist of the contents based on degrees of similarity between the pictures associated with said contents as the tags thereof.

13. A playlist creation program for use with an information processing apparatus, comprising:

causing said information processing apparatus to allow a user to hand-draw and input a picture as a tag to be associated with user-designated contents; and

causing said information processing apparatus to create a playlist of the contents based on degrees of similarity between the pictures associated with said contents as the tags thereof.