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.
Claims17
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to
- receive information associated with electronic content, 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;
- transmit a request for at least one segment of the stored electronic content selected based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- receive the requested at least one segment.
An information processing method, comprising:
- receiving information associated with electronic content, 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;
- transmitting a request for at least one segment of the stored electronic content selected based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- receiving the requested at least one segment.
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:
- receiving information associated with electronic content, 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;
- transmitting a request for at least one segment of the stored electronic content selected based on the location information for each segment of the plurality of segments;
- and
- receiving the requested at least one segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.