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US 8,015,212 B2Granted
Reproduction method, reproduction apparatus, and recording medium
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTakeshi Goto
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Abstract
To provide a reproduction method for enabling an automatic selection and reproduction of a music data suitable for a user's preference during the reproduction, for reproducing a contents data given with an attribute data, and having the steps of: reproducing a plurality of the contents data in a predetermined pattern successively; monitoring an execution of a predetermined input operation during reproducing the contents data; specifying an attribute data common to the plurality of the contents data, to which the input operation is not executed during the reproduction, when a number of the input operations exceeds a predetermined value; and reproducing a contents data given with the common attribute data.
Claims31
A reproduction method comprising the steps of:
- (a) reproducing each of a plurality of contents data stored on a storage medium of a reproduction apparatus in a predetermined pattern successively, the plurality of contents data being all contents data stored on the storage medium or pre-selected contents;
- (b)(1) monitoring a number of occurrences of execution of a predetermined input operation during step (a);
- (b)(2) tracking a second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation monitored for each of the plurality of contents data during step (a);
- (c) specifying attribute data common to a subset of the plurality of contents data, to which the predetermined input operation is not executed during step (a), when the number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operations exceeds a first predetermined value;
- (d) reproducing using an output of the reproduction apparatus only the contents data having the specified common attribute data;
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- (e) forming a play list of another subset of the plurality of content data having the second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation that is less than a predetermined number.
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A reproduction apparatus comprising:
- means for storing data;
- means for reproducing each of a plurality of contents data successively, the plurality of contents data being all contents data stored on the storage medium or pre-selected contents;
- operation means for inputting a predetermined input operation;
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- means for monitoring a number of occurrences of the predetermined input operation of the operation means during the reproduction of the plurality of contents data, means for tracking a second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation monitored for each of the plurality of contents data during the reproduction of the plurality of contents data, for specifying attribute data common to a subset of the plurality of contents data, to which the predetermined input operation is not executed during reproduction, when the number of occurrences of the predetermined input operations exceeds a predetermined value, for controlling reproduction such that only the contents data having the specified common attribute data are reproduced, and for forming a play list of another subset of the plurality of content data having the second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation that is less than a predetermined number.
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A recording medium having stored thereon instructions for controlling a reproduction apparatus to implement steps for reproducing contents data, the steps comprising:
- (a) reproducing each of a plurality of contents data stored on a storage medium in a predetermined pattern successively, the plurality of contents data being all contents data stored on the storage medium or pre-selected contents;
- (b)(1) monitoring a number of occurrences of execution of a predetermined input operation during step (a);
- (b)(2) tracking a second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation monitored for each of the plurality of contents data during step (a);
- (c) specifying attribute data common to a subset of the plurality of contents data, to which the predetermined input operation is not executed during the step (a), when the number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operations exceeds a first predetermined value;
- (d) reproducing only the contents data having the specified common attribute data;
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- (e) forming a play list of another subset of the plurality of content data having the second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation that is less than a predetermined number.
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A reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store data;
- a reproduction unit configured to reproduce each of a plurality of contents data successively, the plurality of contents data being all contents data stored on the storage medium or pre-selected contents;
- an operation unit configured to input a predetermined input operation;
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- a control unit configured to monitor the number of occurrences of the predetermined input operation of the operation unit during the reproduction of the plurality of contents data, to track a second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation monitored for each of the plurality of contents data during the reproduction of the plurality of contents data, to specify attribute data common to a subset of the plurality of contents data, to which the predetermined input operation is not executed during reproduction, when the number of occurrences of the predetermined input operations exceeds a predetermined value, only to control reproduction such that the contents data having the specified common attribute data are reproduced, and to form a play list of another subset of the plurality of content data having the second number of occurrences of execution of the predetermined input operation that is less than a predetermined number.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.