Digital radio receiver and method of reproducing acoustic information
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYoshio Sasaki
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Abstract
A digital radio receiver for receiving information on a piece of music that is identification information for specifying content of digital acoustic information, the identification information being broadcast together with the digital acoustic information is provided. The digital radio receiver includes an internal memory configured to store the information on the piece of music; an operation unit configured to set a timing at which the information on the piece of music is stored in the internal memory; a display unit configured to display the information on the piece of music; and a controller configured to perform a process for storing the information on the piece of music in the internal memory in response to the operation of the operation unit.
Claims8
A digital radio receiver for receiving information on a piece of music that is identification information for specifying content of digital acoustic information, the identification information being broadcast together with the digital acoustic information, the digital radio receiver comprising:
- an internal memory configured to store the information on the piece of music;
- an operation unit configured to set a timing at which the information on the piece of music is stored in the internal memory;
- a display unit configured to display the information on the piece of music;
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- a controller configured to perform a process for storing the information on the piece of music in the internal memory in response to the operation of the operation unit.
A method of receiving information on a piece of music that is identification information for specifying content of digital acoustic information, the identification information being broadcast together with the digital acoustic information, and reproducing the digital acoustic information, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a broadcast using a digital radio receiver and decoding the information on the piece of music;
- storing the information on the piece of music in the internal memory of the digital radio receiver at a timing determined by a user of the digital radio receiver;
- moving the information on the piece of music stored in the internal memory to an acoustic information downloading device;
- communicating with a server of a provider of the digital acoustic information via an Internet line on the basis of the information on the piece of music and downloading digital acoustic information specified by the information on the piece of music from the server, by using the acoustic information downloading device;
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- reproducing the downloaded digital acoustic information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.