Information processor, information processing method, program and recording medium

• US 7,587,406 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2005
• Issued: 09/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hayakawa, Haruki, Ichikawa, Hiroyuki, Sato, Ichiro, Katsumata, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): HO, BINH VAN
• Application Number:
  US11/206,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20060069695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 707/101
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation

Abstract

An information processor for preventing information contained in a file, which has a first area storing first data, a second area storing second data and a third area, from being lost when a format of the file is transformed includes extension unit for extending the second area, a first storage for storing the first data, which is stored in the first area, in the third area, a format analyzer for reconstructing the second data stored in the second area on the basis of a first format and an extended area storage for storing the reconstructed second data in the extended second area.

Claims

1. An information processor configured to transform a first file having an MP3 format, the file including a first area for storing first data including at least one of title and album information, and a second area for storing second data including a music time, to a second file having an XML-based format with a third area for storing the first data, comprising:

a memory;

an extension unit configured to extend an area of the second file to generate an XML extension area;

a first storage unit configured to store at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area of the MP3 format in the third area of the XML-based format, and configured to store a first data list of fringe information included in the first file;

a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct the second data including the music time as third data to store the second data in the second area, by first deciding whether or not the second data is stored in the first file on a basis of the first data list of fringe information and, when the second data is present in the first data list as fringe information, reconstruct the second data as third data; and

a second storage unit configured to store the third data reconstructed by said reconstruction unit in the XML extension area of said extension unit,

wherein the reconstruction unit reconstructs the third data with an ID3 header.

2. The information processor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.

3. An information processing method for transforming a first file having an MP3 format, the file including a first area for storing first data including at least one of title and album information, and a second area for storing second data including a music time, to a second file having an XML-based format with a third area for storing the first data, comprising:

extending an area of the second file to generate an XML extension area;

first storing at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area of the MP3 format in the third area of the XML-based format, and storing a first data list of fringe information included in the first file;

reconstructing the second data including the music time as third data to store the second data in the second area, by first deciding whether or not the second data is stored in the first file on a basis of the first data list of fringe information and, when the second data is present in the first data list as fringe information, reconstructing the second data as third data; and

second storing the third data reconstructed by said reconstructing in the XML extension area of said extending,

wherein said step of reconstructing reconstructs the third data with an ID3 header.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.

5. A hardware recording medium recorded with a program for causing a computer to transform a first file having an MP3 format, the file including a first area for storing first data including at least one of title and album information, and a second area for storing second data including a music time, to a second file having an XML-based format with a third area for storing the first data, the program causing the computer to perform a method, comprising:

extending an area of the second file to generate an XML extension area;

first storing at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area of the MP3 format in the third area of the XML-based format, and storing a first data list of fringe information included in the first file;

reconstructing the second data including the music time as third data to store the second data in the second area, by first deciding whether or not the second data is stored in the first file on a basis of the first data list of fringe information and, when the second data is present in the first data list as fringe information, reconstructing the second data as third data; and

second storing the third data reconstructed by said reconstructing in the XML extension area of said extending,

wherein said step of reconstructing reconstructs the third data with an ID3 header.

6. The hardware recording medium as claimed in claim 5, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.

7. An information processor configured to transform a second file having an XML-based format to a first file having an MP3 format, the second file having a first area that stores first data including at least one of title and album information, and an XML extension are that stores third data, the first file having a second area for storing the first data and the third area for storing the second data, comprising:

a memory;

a first storage unit configured to store at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area to the second area, the second area being a data area of the MP3 format;

an extraction unit configured to extract the second data from the third data of the XML extension area to store the second data in a third area of an ID3 header tag of the MP3 format, the third data being reconstructed second data including information corresponding to a music time on the basis of a first format of a first file having the MP3 format; and

a second storage unit configured to store the second data extracted by said extraction unit in the third area of the ID3 tag.

8. The information processor according to claim 7, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.

9. An information processing method for transforming a second file having an XML-based format to a first file having an MP3 format, the second file having a first area that stores first data including at least one of title and album information, and an XML extension area that stores third data, the first file having a second area for storing the first data and the third area for storing the second data, comprising:

first storing at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area to the second area, the second area being a data area of the MP3 format;

extracting the second data from the third data of the XML extension area to store the second data in a third area of an ID3 header tag of the MP3 format, the third data being reconstructed second data including information corresponding to a music time on the basis of a first format of a first file having the MP3 format; and

second storing the second data extracted by said extracting in the third area of the ID3 tag.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.

11. A hardware recording medium recorded with a program for causing a computer to transform a second file having an XML-based format to a first file having an MP3 format, the second file having a first area that stores first data including at least one of title and album information, and an XML extension area that stores third data, the first file having a second area for storing the first data and the third area for storing the second data, the program causing the computer to perform a method comprising:

first storing at least one of the title information and the album information of the first data stored in the first area to the second area, the second area being a data area of the MP3 format;

extracting the second data from the third data of the XML extension area to store the second data in a third area of an ID3 header tag of the MP3 format, the third data being reconstructed second data including information corresponding to a music time on the basis of a first format of a first file having the MP3 format; and

second storing the second data extracted by said extracting in the third area of the ID3 tag.

12. The hardware recording medium according to claim 11, wherein the XML extension area is located between an XML start tag and an XML end tag.