Recording and reproducing apparatus, processing method in the apparatus, and program for causing computer to execute the method

• US 7,627,560 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2006
• Issued: 12/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Akihiro, Takagi, Tsuyoshi, Kobayashi, Kenichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): To; Baoquoc N
• Application Number:
  US11/401,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20060241798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,330 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/21 characterised in that the disc is of read-only, rewritable, or recordable type
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence

Abstract

A recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a broadcast data holding unit that holds recorded broadcast data; a music data detecting unit that detects a start time and an end time of music data included in the broadcast data; a first song information acquiring unit that acquires first song information concerning the music data on the basis of the music data; an association information creating unit that creates information in which the music data, the broadcast data from the start time to the end time of the music data, and the first song information are associated with one another; and an association information holding unit that holds the information.

Claims

1. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

recording means for recording data distributed to the apparatus, said distributed data including video data and music data of background music in a television program;

distributed data holding means including a computer readable media for holding data recorded by the recording means;

music data detecting means including a processor for detecting a start time and an end time of the music data included in the data held in the distributed data holding means;

first song information searching means for searching first song information including metadata concerning the music data of the background music on the basis of a characteristic waveform of the music data;

association information creating means for creating association information in which the video data, the music data, the data held by the distributed data holding means from the start time to the end time of the music data, and the first song information are associated in computer readable memory with one another; and

association information holding means for holding the association information for subsequent simultaneous display of the video data, playback of the background music and display of the first song information after retrieval of the information.

2. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a distributed data holding unit that holds recorded distributed data, said distributed data including video data and music data of background music in a television program;

a music data detecting unit including a processor programmed to detect a start time and an end time of music data included in the broadcast data;

a first song information searching unit that searches first song information including metadata concerning the music data of the background music on the basis of a characteristic waveform of the music data;

an association information creating unit that creates information in which the video data, the music data, the distributed data from the start time to the end time of the music data, and the first song information are associated with one another; and

an association information holding unit that holds the information for subsequent simultaneous display of the video data, playback of the background music, and display of the first song information after retrieval of the information.

3. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the music data detecting unit detects the start time and the end time of the music data on the basis of subtitle information in the data distributed to the apparatus.

4. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a song information holding unit that holds the first song information concerning the music data, wherein

the song information searching unit searches the first song information from the song information holding unit on the basis of the music data.

5. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the first song information searching unit searches a song name and an artist name of the music data as the first song information.

6. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first song information searching unit further searches detailed information concerning a song corresponding to the music data and detailed information concerning an artist corresponding to the music data as the first song information.

7. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising song data acquiring means for acquiring song data that is data for one song corresponding to the music data.

8. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the song data acquiring means includes:

song data sales information acquiring means for acquiring information on sales of the song data; and

operation means for causing a user to select the song data, which should be purchased, from the information.

9. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the song data sales information acquiring means also acquires information on commodities related to the song data.

10. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

song data reproduction requesting means for requesting reproduction of the song data; and

display control means for causing a display unit to display the data distributed to the apparatus that is held in association with the music data corresponding to the song data during reproduction of the song data.

11. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the song data reproduction requesting means includes:

music data list creating means for creating a list of the music data held by the association information holding means; and

operation means for causing a user to select music data, which should be requested, from the list of the music data.

12. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the display control means causes the display unit to appropriately connect and display the distributed data held in association with the music data corresponding to the song data during reproduction of the song data.

13. A recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

second song information acquiring means for acquiring, on the basis of song data recorded in a recording medium, second song information concerning the song data, the song data being data for one song corresponding to the music data;

song information searching means for searching through the association information holding unit to find the first song information having content identical with that of the second song information;

song data reproducing means for reproducing the song data when the first song information having content identical with that of the second song information is found in the search.

14. A distributed data processing method comprising the steps of:

receiving and recording distributed data, said distributed data including video data and music data of background music in a television program;

detecting with a processor a start time and an end time of the music data included in the distributed data;

searching for song information including metadata concerning the music data of the background music on the basis of a characteristic waveform of the music data

associating in a storage media information in which the video data, the music data, and the song information are associated with one another; and

causing a display unit to simultaneously display the video data and the song information from the start time to the end time of the music data while playing back the background music.

15. A computer readable medium having computer readable instructions contained therein that when executed by a computer cause the computer to execute steps of:

receiving and recording distributed data, said distributed data including video data and music data of background music in a television program;

detecting with a processor a start time and an end time of the music data included in the distributed data;

searching for song information including metadata concerning the music data of the background music on the basis of a characteristic waveform of the music data

associating in a storage media information in which the video data, the music data, and the song information are associated with one another; and

causing a display unit to simultaneously display the video data and the song information from the start time to the end time of the music data while playing back the background music.