Information processing apparatus, bookmark setting method, and program

• US 8,495,495 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2010
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Isozu, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shih, Haoshian
• Application Number:
  US12/945,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20110126105A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 715/230, 715/232, 715/233, 715/719, 715/720, 715/721
• US Class Current: 715/720
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• 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

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a content display unit configured to display movie content on a display screen; and

a bookmark setting unit configured to set a bookmark, in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit;

wherein the bookmark setting unit can set the bookmark without temporally disturbing a progress of playing movie content by the content display unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the bookmark further includes an arbitrary comment to the display subject specified by a user operation.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the information processing apparatus further includes an additional information display unit configured to display additional information including the bookmark that has been already related to the movie content, and

the additional information display unit is configured to display a number of pieces of thumbnail images in a prescribed area within the display screen if the display subject displayed on the display screen is selected by a user operation.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the additional information display unit refers to the temporal position of the selected display subject and displays the thumbnail image at the temporal position and another thumbnail image temporally positioned adjacent to the thumbnail image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the additional information display unit displays a thumbnail image corresponding to the temporal position that has been already set with the bookmark within the prescribed area.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the bookmark setting unit further relates a display position of the display subject on a thumbnail image displayed in the prescribed area selected by a user operation and a temporal position of the thumbnail image to each other to set as a bookmark.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information processing apparatus further includes a selected position specifying unit configured to specify a position of a user operation performed to the display screen, and

the selected position specifying unit specifies a relative coordinate indicating a position selected by a user operation in accordance with a size of the display screen, and specifies a temporal position in the movie content of the display subject based on a temporal position related to image data that configures the movie content and that includes a selected display subject.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information processing apparatus further includes a communication unit for transmitting the bookmark set by the bookmark setting unit to a device externally equipped.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the prescribed area displaying the pieces of thumbnail images can be operated independently from the content display area.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the prescribed area comprises a thumbnail image display area and a comment display area, and the bookmark setting unit is configured to set the bookmark by setting a comment in the comment display area to correspond with a thumbnail in the thumbnail image display area.

9. A bookmark setting method comprising:

displaying video content on a display screen;

specifying, based on a user operation performed to a display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen, a display position where the display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen; and

relating the specified display position and temporal position to each other to set a bookmark to the display subject,

wherein specifying the display position and the temporal position can be performed without temporally disturbing a progress of playing video content on the display screen.

12. The bookmark setting method of claim 9, wherein:

the display position and the temporal position can be changed by moving a position of an indicator within a thumbnail image display area.

10. At least one computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computer to execute a method comprising:

displaying movie content on a display screen; and

setting a bookmark, in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other and are set as a bookmark, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by a content display unit;

wherein setting the bookmark can be performed without temporally disturbing a progress of playing movie content on the display screen.

13. The at least one computer-readable storage device according to claim 10, wherein:

during a processing of setting the bookmark, the progress of playing movie content on the display screen can continue without being paused.