Content combining apparatus and method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorYoshitaka Tobita
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Abstract
A content combining apparatus of this invention includes a control unit which designates, to a content distributing apparatus, a playback condition for the playback of content to be distributed from a content distributing apparatus and a playback condition for the playback of content to be read out from a recording medium. A receiving unit receives the content distributed from the content distributing apparatus in accordance with the playback condition designated by the control unit. This apparatus also includes a circuit which combines the received content and the content read out from the recording medium such that scenes to be simultaneously displayed are synchronously displayed on a video display unit so as to be correlated with each other.
Claims14
A content combining apparatus comprising:
- a designating unit configured to designate, to a content distributing side, a first playback condition for playback of content to be distributed from the content distributing side;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of content distributed from the content distributing side in accordance with the first playback condition designated by the designating unit;
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- a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of content received by the receiving unit such that scenes to be simultaneously displayed are synchronously displayed in the same display window so as to be correlated with each other.
A content combining apparatus including a reading unit configured to read out content recorded on a recording medium, comprising:
- a designating unit configured to designate, to a content distributing side, a first playback condition for playback of content to be distributed from the content distributing side, and designate, to the reading unit, a second playback condition for playback of content to be read out from the reading unit;
- a receiving unit configured to receive one or a plurality of content distributed from the content distributing side in accordance with the first playback condition designated by the designating unit;
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- a combining unit configured to combine one or a plurality of content received by the receiving unit and content read out by the reading unit in accordance with the second playback condition designated by the designating unit such that scenes to be simultaneously displayed are synchronously displayed in the same display window so as to be correlated with each other.
A content combining method comprising:
- designating, to a content distributing side, a first playback condition for playback of content to be distributed from the content distributing side;
- receiving a plurality of content distributed from the content distributing side in accordance with the designated first playback condition;
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- combining said plurality of received content such that scenes to be simultaneously displayed are synchronously displayed in the same display window so as to be correlated with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.