Display device and method, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTakeshi Ozawa
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Abstract
A display device includes: a storage portion storing content addition information associated with one or two or more pieces of content data; a display screen generation portion generating a display screen, which includes image information related with one content addition information stored in the storage portion; and a display switch portion outputting a switch instruction of the image information included on the display screen, and the display screen generation portion switches the image information included on the display screen to other image information related with the one content addition information according to output of the switch instruction by the display switch portion.
Claims16
A portable device comprising:
- a storage portion configured to store audio content data and a plurality of images linked to the audio content data and serving to identify the audio content data;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- receive from a user an input searching for an audio content data item;
- in response to receiving the input searching for the audio content data item, automatically search among the plurality of images stored in the storage portion of the portable device for one or more images identifying the audio content data item sought by the user;
- retrieve a first image and a second image both identifying the audio content data item;
- in response to retrieving the first image and the second image, display the first image on a display portion of the portable device and, after a first period of time, display the second image on the display portion;
- and
- if no image in addition to the first image and the second image is retrieved identifying the audio content data item, stop display after the first image and second image are displayed.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a portable device configured to store audio content data and a plurality of images linked to the audio content data and serving to identify the audio content data, cause the processor portable device to:
- receive from a user an input searching for an audio content data item;
- in response to receiving the input searching for the audio content data item, search among the plurality of images stored in the storage portion of the portable device for one or more images identifying the audio content data item sought by the user;
- retrieve a first image and a second image both identifying the audio content data item;
- and
- in response to retrieving the first image and the second image, display the first image on a display portion of the portable device and, after a first period of time, display the second image on the display portion;
- and
- if no image in addition to the first image and the second image is retrieved identifying the audio content data item, stop display after the first image and second image are displayed.
A method, performed by a portable device configured to store audio content data and a plurality of images linked to the audio content data and serving to identify the audio content data, the method comprising:
- receiving from a user an input searching for an audio content data item;
- in response to receiving the input searching for the audio content data item, automatically searching among the plurality of images stored on the portable device for one or more images identifying the audio content data item sought by the user;
- retrieving a first image and a second image both identifying the audio content data item;
- in response to retrieving the first image and the second image, displaying the first image on a display portion of the portable device and, after a first period of time, displaying the second image on the display portion;
- and
- if no image in addition to the first image and the second image is retrieved identifying the audio content data item, stop display after the first image and second image are displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.