RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING/REPRODUCING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20090279839A1
• Filed: 08/21/2006
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Takeshi, Tabata, Toshio
• Application Number:
  US12/066,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20090279839A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/248
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A determining unit determines whether a vehicle is in a traveling state or a stopped state. When the determining unit determines that the vehicle is in the traveling state, an indicating unit indicates a timing of a point in the content to be reproduced. A specifying unit specifies a representative scene in the content that is in immediate proximity to the timing indicated by the indicating unit. When the determining unit determines that the vehicle is in the stopped state, a reproducing unit reproduces the representative scene.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a determining unit that determines whether a vehicle is in a traveling state or a stopped state;

an indicating unit that indicates, while the vehicle is in the traveling state, a timing of a point in content that is to be reproduced;

a specifying unit that specifies a representative scene in the content that is in immediate proximity to the timing indicated by the indicating unit; and

a reproducing unit that reproduces the representative scene while the vehicle is in the stopped state.

14. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the specifying unit determines, for each scene included in the content, whether the scene is a characteristic scene, and specifies an interval of consecutive characteristic scenes as the representative scene.

15. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the specifying unit extracts an attribute level of each scene included in the content and determines the characteristic scene based on the attribute level.

16. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the specifying unit, to specify the representative scene, determines for each scene after a given point, whether the scene is a characteristic scene, the given point immediately preceding the timing by a predetermined interval.

17. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the determining unit records the time of each vehicle stop, and

the reproducing unit reproduces a representative scene that is after the time of the previous vehicle stop.

18. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 13 further comprising:

an obtaining unit that obtains travel information of the vehicle;

an estimating unit that estimates a duration of the stopped state based on the travel information;

a shortening unit that shortens the representative scene to a length reproducible within the duration of the stopped state, wherein

the reproducing unit reproduces the representative scene shortened by the shortening unit.

19. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 13 further comprising:

a recording unit that records the content; and

a detecting unit that detects a degree of importance of the content recorded by the recording unit, wherein

the specifying unit specifies the representative scene based on the degree of importance.

20. A recording and reproducing method comprising:

determining whether a vehicle is in a traveling state or a stopped state;

indicating, while the vehicle is in the traveling state, a timing of a point in content that is to be reproduced;

specifying a representative scene in the content that is in immediate proximity to the timing indicated by the indicating unit; and

reproducing the representative scene while the vehicle is in the stopped state.

21. A computer-readable recording medium storing therein a recording and reproducing program that causes a computer to execute:

determining whether a vehicle is in a traveling state or a stopped state;

indicating, while the vehicle is in the traveling state, a timing of a point in content that is to be reproduced;

specifying a representative scene in the content that is in immediate proximity to the timing indicated by the indicating unit; and

reproducing the representative scene while the vehicle is in the stopped state.