Playback apparatus, playback method, and playback program

• US 9,569,165 B2
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Utsuki, Shingo, Fujiki, Manabu, Sato, Hiroshi, Nagahara, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fletcher, Marlon
• Application Number:
  US14/258,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20140228990A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/61 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/639 using playlists
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• 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

Abstract

A playback apparatus includes: a storage unit storing music data and group identification information for identifying groups in which the music data are arranged in a predetermined unit; a selection unit selecting the group identification information stored in the storage unit; a notification unit notifying the group identification information selected by the selection unit with a sound; and a playback unit playing back the notification of the group identification information in the notification unit and the music data belonging to the group identified by the group identification information selected by the selection unit.

Claims

1. A playback apparatus comprising:

a display;

a first operation unit positioned at a lateral side of the playback apparatus;

a second operation unit positioned at the lateral side of the information processing apparatus and separated from the first operation unit; and

circuitry configured to output an audio signal selected from a plurality of audio signals,

wherein the circuitry is configured to notify a group identification information, to which the audio signal belongs, with a sound, and

wherein the first operation unit is configured to perform a first predetermined function based on a rotating operation and a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function based on a pushing-in operation, and

wherein the second operation unit is configured to perform a third predetermined function different from the first predetermined function and the second predetermined function, when the second operation unit is pushed.

2. The playback apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a memory in which the plurality of audio signals and the group identification information are stored.

3. The playback apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device,

wherein the circuitry is configured to control the external device via the communication unit.

4. The playback apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to output a sound announcement data corresponding to the sound.

5. The playback apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the sound announcement data includes at least one of an artist name sound data or an album title sound data.

6. The playback apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is configured to control the output of the audio signal based on a user operation via the first operation unit.

7. The playback apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first operation unit has a round shape.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display;

a first operation unit positioned at a lateral side of the information processing apparatus and having a round shape;

a second operation unit positioned at the lateral side of the information processing apparatus and separated from the first operation unit; and

circuitry configured to output first music data selected from a plurality of music data,

wherein the first operation unit is configured to perform a first predetermined function based on a rotating operation input by a user and a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function based on a pushing-in operation input by the user, and

wherein the second operation unit is configured to perform a third predetermined function different from the first predetermined function and the second predetermined function, when the second operation unit is pushed.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the first predetermined function is to switch second music data to be selected based on the rotating operation.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the second predetermined function is to switch a selection target from music album data to music data.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a memory which is configured to store the plurality of music data.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the plurality of music data stored in the memory is transmitted from an external apparatus.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device,

wherein the circuitry is configured to control the external device via the communication unit.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the third predetermined function is to adjust playback volume of the first music data.