CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE, CONTENTS REPRODUCING METHOD

• US 20130179839A1
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Yasufumi, Koyata, Kazuhiro, Kita, Aki, Fujikawa, Kazuya, Wakayama, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US13/670,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20130179839A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00233 details of image data reproduction, e.g. network printing or remote image display using an image reproducing device as a local output from a computer H04N1/00238; digital output from computer to printer unit G06F3/12

Abstract

A contents reproducing device is connected to a reproduction unit that reproduces contents data. The contents reproducing device includes a storage unit configured to store the contents data; an extraction unit configured to extract condition-satisfying-contents data that satisfies a predetermined extraction condition from the contents data stored in the storage unit, and store information identifying the extracted condition-satisfying-contents data in the storage unit; a reproduction control unit configured to cause the reproduction unit to reproduce the contents data in the storage unit in units of the condition-satisfying-contents data; and a report control unit configured to determine whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data that has not been reproduced by the reproduction control unit is present, and to cause a report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.

Claims

1. A contents reproducing device connected to a reproduction unit that reproduces contents data, the contents reproducing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store the contents data;

an extraction unit configured to extract condition-satisfying-contents data that satisfies a predetermined extraction condition from the contents data stored in the storage unit, and store information identifying the extracted condition-satisfying-contents data in the storage unit;

a reproduction control unit configured to cause the reproduction unit to reproduce the contents data in the storage unit in units of the condition-satisfying-contents data; and

a report control unit configured to determine whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data that has not been reproduced by the reproduction control unit is present, and to cause a report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.

2. The contents reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein

the report control unit is configured to determine whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to a presentation period indicated by the predetermined extraction condition is present in the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data, and cause the report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to the presentation period when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to the presentation period is present.

3. The contents reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein

the report unit is a display unit, and the report control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display an image area for starting to reproduce the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data, when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.

4. The contents reproducing device according to claim 3, wherein

the report control unit is configured to set an upper limit to a number of items of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data,

cause the display unit to display the image area relevant to at least one item of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data within the upper limit, and

enable a user to view all items of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data within the upper limit by a scroll operation.

5. The contents reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein

the contents data is image data that has been photographed, and

the predetermined extraction condition is relevant to a time when the image data is photographed.

6. The contents reproducing device according to claim 5, wherein

the reproduction unit is a display unit, and

the reproduction control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display the condition-satisfying-contents data in a format of a slideshow, and cause the display unit to display, on each page of the slideshow, images extracted by a condition relevant to a narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition.

7. The contents reproducing device according to claim 6, wherein

the condition relevant to the narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition is set such that images photographed at close times are displayed on a same page.

8. The contents reproducing device according to claim 6, wherein

the report control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display, on each page of the slideshow, images extracted according to an extraction rule corresponding to the predetermined extraction condition, from the images extracted by the condition relevant to the narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a contents reproduction program that causes a computer, which is connected to a reproduction unit that reproduces contents data, to execute a method comprising:

extracting condition-satisfying-contents data that satisfies a predetermined extraction condition from the contents data stored in a storage unit, and storing information identifying the extracted condition-satisfying-contents data in the storage unit;

causing the reproduction unit to reproduce the contents data in the storage unit in units of the condition-satisfying-contents data; and

determining whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data that has not been reproduced at the causing is present, and causing a report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

the determining includes determining whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to a presentation period indicated by the predetermined extraction condition is present in the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data, and causing the report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to the presentation period when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data corresponding to the presentation period is present.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

the report unit is a display unit, and

the determining includes causing the display unit to display an image area for starting to reproduce the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data, when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein

the determining includes setting an upper limit to a number of items of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data,

causing the display unit to display the image area relevant to at least one item of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data within the upper limit, and

enabling a user to view all items of the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data within the upper limit by a scroll operation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9, wherein

the contents data is image data that has been photographed, and

the predetermined extraction condition is relevant to a time when the image data is photographed.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 13, wherein

the reproduction unit is a display unit, and

the determining includes causing the display unit to display the condition-satisfying-contents data in a format of a slideshow, and causing the display unit to display, on each page of the slideshow, images extracted by a condition relevant to a narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 14, wherein

the condition relevant to the narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition is set such that images photographed at close times are displayed on a same page.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 14, wherein

the determining includes causing the display unit to display, on each page of the slideshow, images extracted according to an extraction rule corresponding to the predetermined extraction condition, from the images extracted by the condition relevant to the narrower timeframe than the predetermined extraction condition.

17. A method for reproducing contents performed by a computer which is connected to a reproduction unit that reproduces contents data, the method comprising:

extracting condition-satisfying-contents data that satisfies a predetermined extraction condition from the contents data stored in a storage unit, and storing information identifying the extracted condition-satisfying-contents data in the storage unit;

causing the reproduction unit to reproduce the contents data in the storage unit in units of the condition-satisfying-contents data; and

determining whether non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data that has not been reproduced at the causing is present, and causing a report unit to make a report relevant to the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data when the non-reproduced condition-satisfying-contents data is present.