US 8,942,545 B2Granted

Content reception device and content accumulation method

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHisaaki Matsuo

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Abstract

Even if times of accumulation of a plurality of contents overlap, each of the contents can be accumulated, and accumulation of the contents can be completed in time for the time and date when the contents are made public. A non-volatile storage portion (23) stores information regarding times of publication of a plurality of contents. When candidate times for the times of accumulation of the plurality of contents overlap, an accumulation time setting portion (24b) determines the order of the times of publication among the plurality of contents on the basis of the information regarding the times of publication stored in the non-volatile storage portion (23), and sets the time of accumulation for each content on the basis of the assessment result. A content accumulation portion (24c) accumulates the contents on the basis of the times of accumulation set by the accumulation time setting portion (24b).

Claims4

Dependent claims

A content reception device for receiving a plurality of contents, comprising:

a storage portion for storing information regarding times of publication of the plurality of contents;
an accumulation time setting portion for determining, in a case where candidate times for times of accumulation of the plurality of contents overlap with each other, an order of the times of publication among the plurality of contents on the basis of the information regarding the times of publication stored in the storage portion, and setting a time of accumulation for each content on the basis of the determination result;
and
a content accumulation portion for accumulating the each content on the basis of times of accumulation set by the accumulation time setting portion, wherein
the plurality of contents include a first content and a second content;
the accumulation time setting portion determines, in a case where a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the first content and a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the second content overlap with each other, an order of times of publication between the first content and the second content, sets a time of accumulation of the first content to the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content in a case where a time of publication of the second content is later than a time of publication of the first content, and sets a time of accumulation of the second content to a time when the second content is broadcasted which is later than the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content, and
the accumulation time setting portion sets, in a case where a time of accumulation of the second content is later than a time of publication of the second content, a time of accumulation of the second content to a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the first content and a time of accumulation of the first content to a time when the first content is broadcasted which is later than the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content.

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A content accumulation method for accumulating a plurality of contents, comprising:

an accumulation time setting step of reading, in a case where candidate times for times of accumulation of the plurality of contents overlap with each other, information regarding times of publication of the plurality of contents from a storage portion, determining an order of the times of publication among the plurality of contents on the basis of the read information regarding the times of publication, and setting a time of accumulation for each content on the basis of the determination result;
and
a content accumulation step of accumulating the each content on the basis of times of accumulation set at the accumulation time setting step, wherein
the plurality of contents include a first content and a second content;
the accumulation time setting step determines, in a case where a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the first content and a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the second content overlap with each other, determining an order of times of publication between the first content and the second content, setting a time of accumulation of the first content to the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content in a case where a time of publication of the second content is later than a time of publication of the first content, and setting a time of accumulation of the second content to a time when the second content is broadcasted which is later than the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content, and
the accumulation time setting step includes, in a case where a time of accumulation of the second content is later than a time of publication of the second content, setting a time of accumulation of the second content to a candidate time for a time of accumulation of the first content and a time of accumulation of the first content to a time when the first content is broadcasted which is later than the candidate time for the time of accumulation of the first content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/885,107Filed 15 Feb 2012
Priority: JP 2011-06777925 Mar 2011
Published: US 2013/0230301 A15 Sep 2013
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04N 9/79
Details of colour television systems: processing of colour television signals in connection with recording
H04N 5/775
Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus: between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
H04N 21/4334
Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations: recording operations
H04N 21/4583
Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating…:…