Content reproduction device
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorAkihiko Yamashita
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Abstract
A content reproduction device has a television broadcast reception function and an Internet connection function, and includes a detection unit and a reproduction-output switching unit. The detection unit detects, when a content of a television broadcast is output for reproduction, a content which is the same as the content of the television broadcast and has a resolution higher than a resolution of the content of the television broadcast from among contents available via an Internet. The reproduction-output switching unit switches a content of the output for reproduction from the content of the television broadcast to the content detected by the detection unit if the detection by the detection unit is successful.
Claims10
A content reproduction device having a television broadcast reception function and an Internet connection function, comprising:
- a detection unit for detecting, when a content of a television broadcast is output for reproduction, a content which is the same as the content of the television broadcast and has a resolution higher than a resolution of the content of the television broadcast from among contents available via an Internet;
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- a reproduction-output switching unit for switching a content of the output for reproduction from the content of the television broadcast to the content detected by the detection unit if the detection by the detection unit is successful.
A content reproduction device having a television broadcast reception function and an Internet connection function, and receiving EPG data in which at least resolution information is contained in each program in EPG, comprising:
- a detection unit for detecting, when a user selects a program of a television broadcast for one of scheduled recording and scheduled viewing in the EPG, a content which is the same as a content of the television broadcast and has a resolution higher than a resolution of the content of the television broadcast from among contents available via an Internet;
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- a scheduling switching unit for switching a content of the one of the scheduled recording and the scheduled viewing from the content of the television broadcast to the content detected by the detection unit if the detection by the detection unit is successful.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.