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US 7,614,067 B2Granted
Content reproduction apparatus and reproduction method
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsHiroko Sugimoto, Tomohiko Kitamura
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Abstract
A content reproduction apparatus functioning to (a) reproduce broadcast program content (“BC”), being image, sound, and other data, that has been received, (b) store commercial content (“CC”), being data such as commercials, announcements, and the like, and (c) cancel the reproduction of the CC during specified broadcast programs.
Claims2
A content reproduction apparatus, comprising:
- instruction receiving means for receiving instruction for channel selection;
- apparatus information storage means for storing broadcast program information indicating a timeslot of a broadcast program for each channel and pre-select information indicating a timeslot of a broadcast program for a channel preselected by a user;
- content storing means for storing commercial content;
- receiving means for receiving broadcast programs;
- first reproducing means for reproducing the received broadcast programs on a monitor;
- pre-select 1st judging means for judging, by referring to the broadcast program information and the pre-select information, whether the selected channel is the channel of the pre-selected broadcast program or not;
- pre-select 2nd judging means for judging, when the selected channel is the channel of the pre-selected broadcast program, by referring to the pre-select information, whether a present time is within either one of (i) a predetermined period that is before the pre-select timeslot, and (ii) a predetermined period that is after the pre-select timeslot;
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- second reproducing means for reproducing the stored commercial content on the monitor when the present time is judged to be within the predetermined period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.