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US 8,947,559 B2Granted
Recorder and player
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenji Kakiuchi, Fumio Takano, Takahide Akamatsu
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Abstract
A player according to the present disclosure includes: an interface that retrieves an audio file from a storage medium on which the audio file and a still picture file are stored; and a controller that retrieves a still picture file, which is selected by the file name of the audio file, from the storage medium and that reads audio and a still picture from the audio file and the still picture file, respectively.
Claims8
A player comprising:
- an interface configured to retrieve an audio file from a storage medium on which the audio file and a still picture file are stored;
- a controller configured to retrieve a still picture file, which is selected by the file name of the audio file, from the storage medium and configured to reproduce audio and a still picture from the audio file and the still picture file, respectively;
- and
- a user interface section that accepts a user's instruction to change the still pictures to be reproduced;
- wherein:
- the controller retrieves, from the storage medium, a still picture file that was generated while the audio file was being generated;
- the controller continues to reproduce the same first still picture until the controller receives the instruction to change via the user interface section;
- when receiving the instruction to change from the user via the user interface while reproducing the audio, the controller reproduces a second still picture distinct from the first still picture;
- and
- a second still picture file representing the second still picture is generated earlier or later than a first still picture file representing the first still picture and is generated at the time closest to the time when the first still picture file is generated.
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