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Playback apparatus, playback method, and recording medium

  • US 8,818,538 B2
  • Filed: 10/24/2006
  • Issued: 08/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of reproducing multimedia items, comprising:

  • combining multimedia items from each of two or more play lists such that the multimedia items of the play lists are successively reproduced according to a predetermined order in a single combined play list;

    displaying information associated with a first multimedia item, of the combined multimedia items, in a first display area and information associated with a second multimedia item, of the combined multimedia items, in a second display area different from the first display area while the first multimedia item is being reproduced; and

    automatically, upon determining that reproduction of the first multimedia item is completed, changing reproduction from the first multimedia item to the second multimedia item, moving the information associated with the first multimedia item to a third display area different from the first and second display areas, moving the information associated with the second multimedia item to the first display area from the second display area, and displaying information associated with a third multimedia item in the second display area, whereinat least one of a color and a luminance level of the information associated with the first multimedia item displayed in the third display area is different from at least one of a color and a luminance level of the information associated with the third multimedia item displayed in the second display area.

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