Information processor, information processing method, and computer program product for processing information input by user

• US 9,268,397 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2013
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takimoto, Yuuji
• Primary Examiner(s): RIEGLER, PATRICK F
• Application Number:
  US13/934,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20140040738A1
• Time in Patent Office: 965 Days
• Field of Search: 715230-233, 715719-726
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895

Abstract

An information processor includes: a playback position holder configured to hold a content playback position at which a user starts inputting a comment on content that is being played back; and a comment information holder configured to hold the comment input by the user in association with the content playback position held by the playback position holder.

Claims

1. An information processor comprising:

a storage unit configured to store content to be played back; and

a central processing unit (CPU) configured to;

initiate playback of the content;

hold, in the storage unit, a content playback position at which a user starts inputting a first comment on the content that is being played back;

hold, in the storage unit, the first comment input by the user in association with the content playback position; and

control a playback speed of the content that is being played back in accordance with progress of input of the first comment by the user, wherein the control of the playback speed comprises;

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back when a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of input of the first comment by the user on the content that is being played back is detected; and

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back based on detection of rewriting of a second comment previously input by the user.

2. The information processor according to claim 1, wherein the CPU is further configured to:

acquire visual information which allows the content at the content playback position to be visualized, and hold the visual information in association with the first comment.

3. The information processor according to claim 1, wherein the CPU is configured to indicate visual information at each playback position of the content that is being played back together with the first comment that is being input by the user on the content that is being played back.

4. The information processor according to claim 3, wherein the visual information is indicated at a plurality of content playback positions including the playback position at which the user starts inputting the first comment on the content that is being played back, and wherein the CPU records the first comment at a playback position corresponding to the visual information selected by the user.

5. An information processing method comprising:

in an information processor comprising a storage unit and a central processing unit (CPU);

holding, in the storage unit, a content playback position at which a user starts inputting a first comment on content that is being played back;

holding, in the storage unit, the first comment input by the user in association with the content playback position that is held; and

controlling a playback speed of the content that is being played back in accordance with progress of input of the comment by the user, wherein the control of the playback speed comprises;

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back when a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of input of the first comment by the user on the content that is being played back is detected; and

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back based on detection of rewriting of a second comment previously input by the user.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon, a set of computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform steps comprising:

holding, in a storage unit, a content playback position at which a user starts inputting a first comment on content that is being played back;

holding, in the storage unit, the first comment input by the user in association with the playback position of the content; and

controlling a playback speed of the content that is being played back in accordance with progress of input of the comment by the user, wherein the control of the playback speed comprises;

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back when a lapse of a predetermined time from the start of input of the first comment by the user on the content that is being played back is detected; and

reducing the playback speed of the content that is being played back based on detection of rewriting of a second comment previously input by the user.