PLAYER AND PLAYING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20150220303A1
• Filed: 04/14/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKATSUKA, Susumu
• Granted Patent: US 10,459,683 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using 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 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data

Abstract

A player includes a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple pieces of contents data, and a play control section configured to: cause the playing section to play contents data based on a first list selected from the multiple lists, determine whether all of contents data on the first list have been played by the playing section or not, extract attribute information of contents data, which satisfies a predetermined condition, from the first list based on the determination result, select a second list, which is not the first list, including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information from the multiple lists, and control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data on the selected second list.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A player comprising:

circuitry configured to

control to play user-selected content data,

control to display a plurality of content data which are identified based on attribute information of the user-selected content data being played,

determine whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended, and

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, control to play one of the plurality of the content data.

3. The player according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate, using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data, a playlist including the plurality of other content, and

display the generated playlist.

4. The player according to claim 3, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

5. The player according to claim 3, wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data.

6. The player according to claim 5, wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

7. The player according to claim 2, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer readable instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

controlling to play user-selected content data,

controlling to display a plurality of content data which are identified based on attribute information of the user-selected content data being played,

determining whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended, and

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, controlling to play one of the plurality of the content data.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, further comprising

generating, using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data, a playlist including the plurality of other content, and

displaying the generated playlist.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 9, wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 11, wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 8, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.

14. A method of causing a player to play content data, comprising:

controlling to play user-selected content data,

controlling to display a plurality of content data which are identified based on attribute information of the user-selected content data being played,

determining whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended, and

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, controlling to play one of the plurality of the content data.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising

generating, using the attribute information of the user-selected content data as seed data, a playlist including the plurality of other content, and

displaying the generated playlist.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the playlist is generated based on a history of play of content data.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the generated playlist is an ordered list of the plurality of content data having an order based on most recently acquired content data.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the most recently acquired content data is prioritized in the order of the generated playlist.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, and sales information.