Content supplying apparatus, content supplying method, content reproduction apparatus, content reproduction method, program and content viewing system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorNaohisa KITAZATO
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a content supplying apparatus for supplying a video content to a content reproduction apparatus, including: a production section adapted to produce a video switch command for causing the content reproduction apparatus to execute a process regarding changeover of a video content to be reproduced; a broadcasting section adapted to broadcast a video content, in which the produced video switch command is embedded, through a broadcasting network; and a delivery section adapted to deliver the video content through the Internet.
Claims16
(canceled)
A content reproduction apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- acquire a first video content,
- process the first video content for display to a user,
- acquire a switch command associated with the first video content, the switch command including a target stream uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with a second video content,
- acquire the second video content, and
- process the second video content for display to the user in accordance with the switch command.
A method of a content reproduction apparatus for reproducing video content, the method comprising:
- acquiring a first video content;
- processing the first video content for display to a user,
- acquiring, by circuitry of the content reproduction apparatus, a switch command associated with the first video content, the switch command including a target stream uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with a second video content;
- acquiring a second video content;
- and
- processing, by the circuitry, the second video content for display to the user in accordance with the switch command.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method for reproducing video content, the method comprising:
- acquiring a first video content;
- processing the first video content for display to a user,
- acquiring a switch command associated with the first video content, the switch command including a target stream uniform resource identifier (URI) associated with a second video content;
- acquiring a second video content;
- and
- processing the second video content for display to the user in accordance with the switch command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.