Information processor and information processing system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMakoto Korehisa, Tomoyuki Hanai
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Abstract
The information processing device comprises: the device controller 24 which controls a plurality of visual-audio reproducing units 1 from the server 2 via the device communication interfaces 16, 26; content information unification recording section 21 which controls content information corresponding to the contents of the contents storage 13 from the server 2; and the GUI 27 by which any content information from the server 2 is selected and desired contents are reproduced without recognizing the unit.
Claims26
An information processing device in which a plurality of information reproducing sections are connected to an information processing section via an interface to perform control of information comprising:
- reproducing control means for controlling said plurality of information reproducing sections from said information reproducing section;
- content information managing means for managing content information corresponding to contents of an information source in said plurality of information reproducing sections;
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- content information selection means for selecting any content information in said content information managing means from said information processing section;
- wherein any information reproducing section having the contents corresponding to content information selected by said content information selection means is put to an active state relative to reproducing by said reproducing control means from said information processing section.
An information processing system in which a plurality of information reproducing devices are connected to an server device via an interface to perform control of information comprising:
- reproducing control means for controlling said plurality of information reproducing devices from said server device;
- content information managing means for managing content information corresponding to contents of an information source in said plurality of information reproducing sections;
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- content information selection means for selecting any content information in the content information managing means from said server device;
- wherein any information reproducing device having the contents corresponding to content information selected by said content information selection means is put to an active state relative to reproducing by said reproducing control means from said server device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.