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US 7,890,520 B2Granted
Processing apparatus and associated methodology for content table generation and transfer
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHideo Tsukazaki, Kotaro Asaka, Takashi Kinouchi, Takamichi Hayashi
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Abstract
An information-processing apparatus to connect to a reproduction apparatus, store contents in a host database having attributes of contents stored in a content storage section, identify contents stored in a reproduction apparatus, extract attributes of identified contents of the reproduction apparatus from the host database, create plural tables of different types, and transfer the created tables to the reproduction apparatus.
Claims9
A portable reproduction apparatus to connect to an information-processing apparatus, said reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a content storage section configured to store a plurality of contents;
- a table acquisition section configured to acquire a plurality of tables from said information-processing apparatus, each table provided in a layer structure including titles of contents identified by said information-processing apparatus from said content storage section as a lowest-level layer and a name of a group including said identified contents as a high-level layer, on the basis of attributes extracted from a host database of said information-processing apparatus including attributes of contents stored in a content storage section in said information-processing apparatus as the attributes of said identified contents;
- a terminal storage section for storing at least a first table and a second table, said first table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a first rule and said second table is a table included in said acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a second rule, for the name of every group including some of said identified contents;
- a display control section configured to read out said first table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a first operation and to display said titles arranged in said first table in accordance with said first rule as the titles of said identified contents on a display section, and to read out said second table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a second operation and to display said titles arranged in said second table in accordance with said second rule as the titles of said identified contents on said display section;
- a content-title selection section configured to select one of content titles displayed by said display control section;
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- a content reproduction section configured to select a content identified by a content title selected by said content-title selection section from said contents stored in said content storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus and to reproduce said selected content.
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A reproduction method of a portable reproduction apparatus to connect to an information-processing apparatus, said reproduction method comprising:
- acquiring a plurality of tables from said information-processing apparatus, each table provided in a layer structure including titles of contents identified by said information-processing apparatus from a content storage section employed in said portable reproduction apparatus as a lowest-level layer and a name of a group including said identified contents as a high-level layer, on the basis of attributes extracted from a host database of said information-processing apparatus including attributes of contents stored in a content storage section in said information-processing apparatus as said attributes of said identified contents;
- storing at least a first table and a second table into a terminal storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus, said first table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a first rule and said second table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a second rule, for the name of every group including some of said identified contents;
- controlling display for reading out said first table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a first operation and displaying said titles arranged in said first table in accordance with said first rule as the titles of said identified contents on a display section, and reading out said second table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a second operation and displaying said titles arranged in said second table in accordance with said second rule as the titles of said identified contents on said display section;
- selecting one of content titles displayed at said controlling display step;
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- reproducing a content identified by a content title selected at said selecting one of content titles step from said contents stored in said content storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus.
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A computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions thereon that, when executed by a processor of a portable reproduction apparatus, direct the processor to perform:
- a table acquisition process of acquiring a plurality of tables from said information-processing apparatus, each table provided in a layer structure including titles of contents identified by said information-processing apparatus from a content storage section employed in said portable reproduction apparatus as a lowest-level layer and a name of a group including said identified contents as a high-level layer, on the basis of attributes extracted from a host database of said information processing apparatus including attributes of contents stored in a content storage section in said information-processing apparatus as said attributes of said identified contents;
- a terminal storage process of storing at least a first table and a second table into a terminal storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus, said first table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a first rule and said second table is a table included in said plurality of acquired tables arranged by title of said identified contents in accordance with a second rule, for the name of every group including some of said identified contents;
- a display control process of reading out said first table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a first operation and displaying said titles arranged in said first table in accordance with said first rule as the titles of said identified contents on a display section, and reading out said second table from said terminal storage section in accordance with a second operation and displaying said titles arranged in said second table in accordance with said second rule as the titles of said identified contents on said display section;
- a content-title selection process of selecting one of content titles displayed by said display control process;
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- a content reproduction process of reproducing a content identified by a content title selected by said content-title selection process from said contents stored in said content storage section in said portable reproduction apparatus.
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A portable reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a terminal database including attributes of each of contents stored in a storage medium in said portable reproduction apparatus;
- a terminal-database transfer section configured to transmit said terminal database to an information-processing apparatus connected to said portable reproduction apparatus;
- a terminal-database acquisition section configured to acquire a terminal database obtained as a result of processes carried out by said information-processing apparatus to
- compare a host database of said information-processing apparatus including attributes of contents managed by said information-processing apparatus with said terminal database received by said information-processing apparatus from said portable reproduction apparatus,
- generate records required for a process to update said terminal database including titles of contents and album names each serving as a name of a group including some of said contents in said process to update said terminal database in accordance with a result of comparing said host database with said terminal database,
- update a portion of said terminal database on the basis of a result of a process to sort content titles recorded in said generated records as said titles of contents in accordance with a first rule, and
- update a portion of said terminal database on the basis of a result of a process to sort content titles recorded in said generated records as said titles of contents in accordance with a second rule, for every group name recorded in said records as said name of a group;
- an output control section configured to output a result of a process carried out to sort attributes in said terminal database as a sorting process conforming to said first rule in accordance with a first operation and outputting a result of a process carried out to sort attributes in said terminal database as a sorting process conforming to said second rule in accordance with a second operation;
- a content selection section configured to select a title of a content from a result output by said output control section;
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- a content reproduction section configured to reproduce the content identified by the title selected by said content selection section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.