Player and playing method and program

• US 7,725,204 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takatsuka, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Flanders; Andrew C
• Application Number:
  US11/517,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20070061497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 369/47.1, 369/53.1, 369/59.1, 386/E9.036
• US Class Current: 700/94
• 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. A player comprising:

a playing section configured to play contents data based on a list selected from multiple lists each having multiple contents data; and

a play control section configured to;

cause the playing section to play contents data based included in a first list selected from the multiple lists;

determine whether all of contents data included in the first list have been played;

extract attribute information from contents data included in the first list, the extracted attribute information satisfying a predetermined condition, the extracted attribute information including at least one of a melody and a tempo, each contents data included in the first list having different attribute information;

select, from the multiple lists, a second list different from the first list and including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information; and

control the playing section to automatically start playing the contents data included in the selected second list.

2. The player according to claim 1, wherein the play control section controls play of the contents data included in the second list and corresponding to the extracted attribute information.

3. The player according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is based on attribute information of last played contents data on the first list.

4. The player according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is based on rating information in attribute information of contents data on the first list.

5. The player according to claim 1, wherein the second list is based on the history of play of the contents data by the playing section.

6. The player according to claim 1, wherein the second list is based on contents data obtained more lately.

7. The player according to claim 6, wherein the contents data obtained more lately is subscription contents data.

8. The player according to claim 1,

wherein the first list is a list based on the selection by a user, and the second list is a list of subscription contents;

and

the play control section automatically moves to the play of the subscription contents when playing all of contents on the list based on the selection by a user completes.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information further includes at least one of a content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a rating, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

9. A playing method for a player comprising:

playing, in a playing section, contents data based on a first list selected from multiple lists each having multiple contents data;

determining, at a play control section, whether all contents data included in the first list have been played;

extracting, at the play control section, attribute information of contents data included in the first list, the extracted attribute information satisfying a predetermined condition the extracted attribute information including at least one of a melody and a tempo, each contents data included in the first list having different attribute information;

selecting, at the play control section, a second list different from the first list and including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information; and

playing, at the playing section, the contents data on the second list in response to selecting the second list.

12. The player according to claim 9, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a rating, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

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

playing contents data based on a first list selected from multiple lists each having multiple contents data;

determining whether all contents data included in the first list have been played;

extracting attribute information of contents data included in the first list, the extracted attribute information satisfying a predetermined condition, the extracted attribute information including at least one of a melody and a tempo, each contents data included in the first list having different attribute information;

selecting a second list different from the first list and including contents data corresponding to the extracted attribute information; and

playing the contents data on the second list in response to selecting the second list.

13. The computer-readable medium according to claim 10, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a rating, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.