Content data recording device, content data recording method, recording medium, and content delivering system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshinori Shimizu
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Abstract
A content data recording device of the present invention includes: a first obtaining section which obtains content data used to reproduce a content by streaming and which switches, depending on a communication state, between obtainment of high-quality data and obtainment of low-quality data; a second obtaining section which obtains, part of the high-quality data which part has not been obtained by the first obtaining section, after the communication state is recovered; and a recording performing section (404) which records (i) the high-quality data obtained by the first obtaining section and (ii) the part of the high-quality data obtained by the second obtaining section.
Claims7
A content data recording device which records content data externally obtained, comprising:
- means for obtaining information indicative of where to obtain content data;
- a first obtaining means for (i) obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, the content data used to reproduce a content by streaming and (ii) switching, depending on a communication state, between obtainment of high-quality part of the content data and obtainment of low-quality part of the content data;
- a second obtaining means for obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, part of the high-quality part which part has not been obtained by the first obtaining means, after the communication state is recovered;
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- a recording means for recording (i) the high-quality part obtained by the first obtaining means and (ii) the part of the high-quality part obtained by the second obtaining means.
A method of recording content data externally obtained, comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining information indicative of where to obtain content data;
- (b) obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, the content data used to reproduce a content by streaming, and switching, depending on a communication state, between obtainment of high-quality part of the content data and obtainment of low-quality part of the content data;
- (c) obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, part of the high-quality part which part has not been obtained in the step (b), after the communication state is recovered;
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- (d) recording (i) the high-quality part obtained in the step (b) and (ii) the part of the high-quality part obtained in the step (c).
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a control program is recorded,
- the control program causing a computer to function as each means of a content data recording device which records content data externally obtained,
- the content data recording device including:
- means for obtaining information indicative of where to obtain content data;
- a first obtaining means for (i) obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, the content data used to reproduce a content by streaming and (ii) switching, depending on a communication state, between obtainment of high-quality part of the content data and obtainment of low-quality part of the content data;
- a second obtaining means for obtaining, in accordance with the information thus obtained, part of the high-quality part which part has not been obtained by the first obtaining means, after the communication state is recovered;
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- a recording means for recording (i) the high-quality part obtained by the first obtaining means and (ii) the part of the high-quality part obtained by the second obtaining means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.