Content reproduction system, content reproduction apparatus, program, content reproduction method, and providing content server
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTatsuya IGARASHI
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, encoder, and decoder for receiving, transmitting, encoding and decoding content is provided. The method includes receiving a first segment of the content, the first segment having a first format, receiving, from a transmitting apparatus, a second segment of the content, the second segment having a second format, monitoring a network status between the receiving apparatus and the transmitting apparatus, and selecting the first segment or the second segment based on the monitored network status.
Claims19
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to transmit information associated with electronic content to a device, wherein the electronic content, stored in a plurality of different bit rates, comprises a plurality of segments and the information associated with the electronic content comprises location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- receive a request from the device for at least one segment of the stored electronic content selected by the device based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- transmit the requested at least one segment to the device.
An information processing method, comprising:
- transmitting information associated with electronic content to a device, wherein the electronic content, stored in a plurality of different bit rates, comprises a plurality of segments and the information associated with the electronic content comprises location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- receiving a request from the device for at least one segment of the electronic content selected by the device based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- transmitting the requested at least one segment to the device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:
- transmitting information associated with electronic content to a device, wherein the electronic content, stored in a plurality of different bit rates, comprises a plurality of segments and the information associated with the electronic content comprises location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- receiving a request from the device for at least one segment of the electronic content selected by the device based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- transmitting the requested at least one segment to the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.