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US 2016/0078902 A1Published application
Content reproduction method and apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-sun KIM, Ji-young KWAHK
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Abstract
The content reproduction method includes receiving a select signal for selecting one or more pieces of content; and reproducing the selected pieces of content and one or more pieces of content which were generated or reproduced together with the selected pieces of content in a temporal space within a range.
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A content reproduction method comprising:
- storing, in a storage unit, a plurality of contents and a plurality of spatio-temporal meta information which correspond to the plurality of contents;
- receiving a selection signal for selecting one or more first contents among the plurality of contents to be reproduced;
- searching the plurality of contents stored on the storage unit for one or more second contents having spatio-temporal meta information that is within a range of spatio-temporal meta information of the selected one or more first contents;
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- reproducing the selected one or more first contents together with the one or more second contents found during the searching,
- wherein spatio-temporal meta information of a corresponding content is information about a time and a location at which the corresponding content was generated or reproduced.
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A content reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit which stores a plurality of contents;
- a control unit which receives a selection signal for selecting one or more first contents of the stored plurality of contents, searches for one or more second contents of the stored plurality of contents having spatio-temporal meta information that is within a range of spatio-temporal meta information of the selected one or more first contents, and reproduces the selected one or more first contents together with the one or more second contents found during a search,
- wherein spatio-temporal meta information of a corresponding content is information about a time and a location at which the corresponding content was generated or reproduced.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium on which a program for executing a content reproduction method is recorded, the method comprising:
- storing a plurality of contents and a plurality of spatio-temporal meta information which correspond to the plurality of contents;
- receiving a selection signal for selecting one or more first contents among the plurality of contents to be reproduced;
- searching the plurality of contents stored on the storage unit for one or more second contents having spatio-temporal meta information that is within a range of spatio-temporal meta information of the selected one or more first contents;
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- reproducing the selected one or more first contents together with the one or more second contents found during the searching,
- wherein spatio-temporal meta information of a corresponding content is information about a time and a location at which the corresponding content was generated or reproduced.
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