Content playback method and content player
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorNaoko Takeda
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Abstract
A content playback method in a content player which searches for content data by a hierarchical structure defined based on a plurality of attributes, comprising a display step of displaying a plurality of classification items for classifying the content data on a screen, a classification item specification step of specifying a designated classification item in the hierarchical structure when playback of a predetermined classification item is designated in the plurality of classification items displayed on the screen, and a playback step of playing back content data allocated to a lower layer from the specified classification item and such a content player.
Claims20
A content playback method in a content player which searches for content data by a hierarchical structure defined based on a plurality of attributes, comprising
- a display step of displaying a plurality of classification items for classifying the content data on a screen,
- a classification item specification step of specifying a designated classification item in said hierarchical structure when playback of a predetermined classification item is designated in the plurality of classification items displayed on said screen, and
- a playback step of playing back content data allocated to a lower layer from the specified classification item.
A content player comprising:
- a display for displaying data,
- a storage medium for storing content data, and
- a processing means for defining a hierarchical structure based on a plurality of attributes having said content data, displaying on said display a plurality of classification items for classifying said content data, specifying a designated classification item in said hierarchical structure when playback of a predetermined classification item among the plurality of classification items displayed on the display is designated, and playing back content data allocated to a lower layer from said specified classification item.
A content player for displaying a search screen wherein a plurality of classification items for classifying content data are defined for each of a plurality of attributes of the content data and searching for content data based on the attributes and the classification items, comprising:
- a storage medium for storing a plurality of content data;
- a display;
- an operating means;
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- a processing means for defining the attributes and the classification items in a hierarchical structure, displaying the search screen for designating any classification item from among the plurality of classification items defined in the attributes linked with the layer in each layer on the display, specifying the designated classification item in the hierarchical structure when receiving a playback instruction in a state where a classification item on the displayed search screen is designated by a designation operation by the operating means, reading out the content data assigned to a lower layer of the specified classification item from the storage medium, and playing back the same.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.