Portable playback device, and control method for portable playback device, program, and information storage medium capable of facilitating an operation for changing a reproduction of content data

• US 9,495,014 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2012
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsuo, Keisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Ipakchi, Maryam
• Application Number:
  US14/241,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20140282284A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,680 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

In a case where an inclination state of the portable reproduction device is changed from a reference state to another state in which a difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or larger than a reference value and thereafter returns from the other state to the reference state, a determination unit determines whether or not the period of time elapsed after the inclination state starts changing from the reference state to the other state until the inclination state returns to the reference state is within a reference period of time. In a case where the determination unit determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, a production control unit changes the reproduction position of the content data, based on a direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the other state relative to the reference state.

Claims

1. A portable reproduction device for reproducing content data, the portable reproduction device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

detect an inclination state of the portable reproduction device;

determine if the inclination state of the portable reproduction device is changed from a reference state to another state in which a difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or larger than a reference value and thereafter returns from the another state to the reference state, whether or not a period of time elapsed after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device starts changing from the reference state to the another state until the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returns to the reference state is within a reference period of time; and

change a reproduction position of the content data based on a direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state, after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returned to the reference state, if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.

2. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:

set an amount by which to change the reproduction position of the content data when changing the reproduction position of the content data, based on an inclination degree of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state.

3. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:

determine if the inclination state of the portable reproduction device is changed from the reference state to the another state, whether or not the period of time elapsed after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device starts changing from the reference state until the inclination state of the portable reproduction device comes to be in the another state is within a reference period of time, wherein the processor is further operable to;

change the reproduction position of the content data, based on a current direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device relative to the reference state, during a period after the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.

4. The portable reproduction device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further operable to:

determine if the inclination state of the portable reproduction device is changed from the reference state to the another state, whether or not the period of time elapsed after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device starts changing from the reference state until the inclination state of the portable reproduction device comes to be in the another state is within a reference period of time, wherein the processor is further operable to;

change the reproduction position of the content data, based on a current direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device relative to the reference state, during a period after the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.

5. The portable reproduction device according to claim 3, wherein

the reproduction position of the content data is changed at a speed correlated to a current degree of inclination of the portable reproduction device relative to the reference state, during the period after the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.

6. The portable reproduction device according to claim 4, wherein

the reproduction position of the content data is changed at a speed correlated to a current degree of inclination of the portable reproduction device relative to the reference state, during the period after the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.

7. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:

detect a user approaching the portable reproduction device; and

restrict reproduction control with respect to the content data, based on a result of detecting the user approaching the portable reproduction device.

8. The portable reproduction device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further operable to:

detect a user approaching the portable reproduction device; and

restrict reproduction control with respect to the content data, based on a result of detecting the user approaching the portable reproduction device.

9. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further operable to:

change the reproduction position of the content data if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, and the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with a first axis as a rotation axis, and

the processor is further operable to register information indicating a current reproduction position of the content data in bookmark data stored in a storage if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, and the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with a second axis orthogonal to the first axis as a rotation axis.

10. The portable reproduction device according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further operable to:

change the reproduction position of the content data if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, and the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with a first axis as a rotation axis, and

the processor is further operable to register information indicating a current reproduction position of the content data in bookmark data stored in a storage if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, and the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with a second axis orthogonal to the first axis as a rotation axis.

11. The portable reproduction device according to claim 9, wherein the processor is further operable to:

delete the information indicating the current reproduction position of the content data from the bookmark data if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with the second axis as a rotation axis, and the information indicating the current reproduction position of the content data is already registered in the bookmark data.

12. The portable reproduction device according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further operable to:

delete the information indicating the current reproduction position of the content data from the bookmark data if the processor determines that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time, the direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state is a direction of inclination with the second axis as a rotation axis, and the information indicating the current reproduction position of the content data is already registered in the bookmark data.

13. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein

the content data includes a plurality of unit content data,

the portable reproduction device reproduces the plurality of unit content data according to order information, and

the processor is further operable to change reproduction target unit content data to unit content data following or preceding current reproduction target unit content data, to thereby change the reproduction position of the content data.

14. The portable reproduction device according to claim 2, wherein

the content data includes a plurality of unit content data,

the portable reproduction device reproduces the plurality of unit content data according to order information, and

the processor is further operable to change reproduction target unit content data to unit content data following or preceding current reproduction target unit content data, to thereby change the reproduction position of the content data.

15. The portable reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein

the another state is a state in which a difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or larger than a first reference value, and

the processor is further operable to determine that the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returns to the reference state if the inclination state of the portable reproduction device comes to be in a state in which the difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or smaller than a second reference value that is smaller than the first reference state.

16. The portable reproduction device according to claim 2, wherein

the another state is a state in which a difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or larger than a first reference value, and

the processor is further operable to determine that the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returns to the reference state if the inclination state of the portable reproduction device comes to be in a state in which the difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or smaller than a second reference value that is smaller than the first reference state.

17. A control method for a portable reproduction device for reproducing content data, the portable reproduction device operable to detect an inclination state of the portable reproduction device, the control method comprising:

obtaining information on the inclination state of the portable reproduction device;

determining if the detected inclination state of the portable reproduction device is changed from a reference state to another state in which a difference from the reference state in inclination is equal to or larger than a reference value and thereafter returns from the another state to the reference state, whether or not a period of time elapsed after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device starts changing from the reference state to the another state until the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returns to the reference state is within a reference period of time; and

changing a reproduction position of the content data, based on a direction of inclination of the portable reproduction device in the another state relative to the reference state, after the inclination state of the portable reproduction device returned to the reference state, if it is determined at the determining that the period of time elapsed is within the reference period of time.