Player and playing method and program

• US 9,047,372 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• 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:
  US12/716,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20100161091A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,917 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94, 704500-504, 369 1- 12
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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:

circuitry configured to

play user-selected content data,

extract attribute information of the user-selected content data being played,

identify, using the extracted attribute information as seed data, a playlist including the user-selected content data being played and a plurality of other content,

determine whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended,

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, select content data from the identified playlist, and

play the selected content data,

wherein the attribute information includes at least rating information calculated from a percentage of the user-selected content that is played and rating information compiled from different users.

2. The player according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry controls playing of selected content data according to the identified playlist and the extracted attribute information.

3. The player according to claim 1, wherein the identified playlist corresponds to a history of play of content data.

4. The player according to claim 1, wherein the identified playlist includes most recently acquired content data.

5. The player according to claim 4, wherein the most recently acquired content data is subscription content data.

6. The player according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a melody, a tempo, content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

14. The player according to claim 1, wherein

the identified playlist is an ordered list of content data, and

the selected content data is content data immediately following the user-selected content data in the ordered list.

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

playing user-selected content data;

extracting attribute information of the user-selected content data being played;

identifying, using the extracted attribute information as seed data, a playlist including the user-selected content being played and a plurality of other content data;

determining whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended;

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, selecting content data from the identified playlist; and

controlling playback of the selected content data,

wherein the attribute information includes a degree of favorite information calculated from a percentage of the user-selected content that is played and rating information compiled from different users.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein playing of the selected content data is controlled according to the identified playlist and the extracted attribute information.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the identified playlist corresponds to a history of play of content data.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the identified playlist includes most recently acquired content data.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the most recently acquired content data is subscription content data.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a melody, a tempo, content ID, an album ID, an artist ID, a genre ID, a release date, a frequency of play, a ranking, sales information and a date of registration.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 7, wherein

the identified playlist is an ordered list of content data, and

the selected content data is content data immediately following the user-selected content data in the ordered list.

13. A method of causing a player to play content data, comprising:

playing user-selected content data;

extracting, at a control circuit, attribute information of the user-selected content data being played;

identifying, at the control circuit and using the extracted attribute information as seed data, a playlist including the user-selected content data being played and a plurality of other content data;

determining whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed without user input after playing of the user-selected content data has ended;

in response to the predetermined period of time elapsing after playing of the user-selected content data has ended and no user input being received during the predetermined period of time, selecting, at the control circuit, content data from the identified playlist; and

controlling, at the control circuit, playback of the selected content data,

wherein the attribute information includes a degree of favorite information calculated from a percentage of the user-selected content that is played and rating information compiled from different users.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein

the identified playlist is an ordered list of content data, and

the selected content data is content data immediately following the user-selected content data in the ordered list.