PLAYBACK APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PLAYBACK PROGRAM

• US 20140228990A1
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Utsuki, Shingo, Fujiki, Manabu, Sato, Hiroshi, Nagahara, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,569,165 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A playback apparatus comprising:

a selection unit selecting group identification information stored in a storage unit, the storage unit storing music data and the group identification information for identifying groups which correspond to the music data, in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit;

a notification unit notifying, when the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit is changed from the music data of a first group to the music data of a second group, the first group and the second group being among the groups which correspond to the music data identified by the group identification information, a user of the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound indicative thereof so as to provide the user with the selected group identification information which pertains to the corresponding music data without utilizing a display device; and

a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.

3. The playback apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the playback unit sequentially plays back a plurality of music data when the plurality of music data belongs to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.

4. The playback apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the playback unit plays back a climax part of the music data.

5. The playback apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the playback unit sequentially plays back the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information while the notification unit notifies the group identification information with a sound.

6. The playback apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the playback unit plays back all the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information while the notification unit notifies the group identification information with a sound, the playback unit repeatedly plays back the music data belonging to the group until the notification is ended.

7. The playback apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the playback unit selects a predetermined amount of music data from the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit and sequentially plays back the selected music data.

8. The playback apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the playback unit selects a predetermined amount of music data from the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit in the order of decreasing number of playback times and plays back the selected music data.

9. The playback apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the playback unit selects representative music data specified in advance from the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit and plays back the selected music data.

10. A playback method comprising the steps of:

providing a notification unit to notify, when music data belonging to a group identified by group identification information selected from a storage unit storing music data and the group identification information, in which the group identification information corresponds to the music data for identifying groups and in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit, is changed from the music data of a first group to the music data of a second group, the first group and the second group being among the groups which correspond to the music data identified by the group identification information, a user of the selected group identification information with a sound indicative thereof so as to provide the user with the selected group identification information which pertains to the corresponding music data without utilizing a display device; and

providing a playback unit to play back the music data belonging to the group identified by the selected group identification information.

11. A playback program on a computer readable storage device making a computer perform the steps of:

providing a notification unit to notify, when music data belonging to a group identified by group identification information selected from a storage unit storing music data and the group identification information, in which the group identification information corresponds to the music data for identifying groups and in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit, is changed from the music data of a first group to the music data of a second group, the first group and the second group being among the groups which correspond to the music data identified by the group identification information, a user of the selected group identification information with a sound indicative thereof so as to provide the user with the selected group identification information which pertains to the corresponding music data without utilizing a display device; and

providing a playback unit to play back the music data belonging to the group identified by the selected group identification information.