Sony Corporation

Sony Music Entertainment (japan) Inc.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Kotaro Asaka

Hideo Tsukazaki

Takashi Kinouchi

Susumu Takatsuka

Junichiro Sakata

Takeshi Ozawa

Takashi Kawakami

Akira Kurihara

Takamichi Hayashi

Takayuki Kori

Yasuharu Seki

Tatsuya Konno

A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a playback screen containing at least one attribute data among the plurality of attribute data assigned to the content data when reproducing the content data and, when one attribute data among the attribute data composing the playback screen is selected, switch the display content of the content from the playback screen to the list relating to the selected attribute data.

Reproduction device and display control method

There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position Pin a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position Pwith the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position Pwhere the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

An apparatus and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a method may obtain metadata associated with corresponding values of a first characteristic and a second characteristic of a plurality of content elements. A display including a plurality of display elements may be generated, and the content elements may be assigned to corresponding ones of the display elements, based on a comparison between first and second characteristic values and first and second characteristic value ranges. A first signal may be generated to display a representation of the display to a user, and a selection of a display element may be received from the user. The method may obtain a content element assigned to the selected display element.

Media player using a multidimensional grid interface

There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position Pin a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position Pwith the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position Pwhere the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding, to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.

An electronic device, data processing method, data control method, and content data processing system enabling a user to search for a track reproduced in the past, but with a forgotten title name and an artist name. A CPU displays on an LCD panel a reproduction history screen displaying a number of tracks reproduced that day on a calendar. By a user operation via an input device, the CPU switches the reproduction history screen to another reproduction history screen displaying a list of tracks reproduced on a certain other day as the reproduction history list. It reproduces the track selected by the user and allows editing of its attribute.

Electronic device, data processing method, data control method, and content data processing system

An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, includes: display control means for displaying, on the display, an item associated with predetermined content; detection means for detecting a contact of a user with the touch panel; determination means for determining whether or not the contact of the user is released, the contact being detected by the detection means; selection means for completing, when the determination means determines that the contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by the display control means on a position where the contact of the user was detected by the detection means until just before; and playback means for playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by the selection means.

Information processing apparatus, method and program

In a PC (), an information acquisition device () acquires a plurality of meta information items. A storage device () stores a plurality of modules each having rules defined for creating a sort-ready text according to readings representative of how the corresponding acquired meta information item is read. A sort-ready text creation device () creates automatically the sort-ready text for each of the meta information items acquired by use of at least one of the stored modules which includes rules applicable to predetermined conditions. A sort execution device () sorts each of the meta information items based on the sort-ready text which has been created automatically, thereby automatically creating sorted meta information. An initial information creation device () creates initial information including an initial of each of the meta information items before adding the created initial information to each of the meta information items. These devices combine to sort the meta information according to the user's language and preferences.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program

When a PCconnects to a PD, the PCdecides whether or not the PDholds a group ID and if the PCdecides PDholds the group ID, PCdecides whether or not the group ID held in the PCand the group ID held in the PDcoincide with each other. If the both IDs are not decided that they don't coincide with each other, the PCacquires a device ID corresponding to PDfrom PDand transfers the device ID and a terminal ID of the PCto a server apparatus. Then the PCreceives, from the server apparatus, a user link completion information representative that an association between first user ID corresponding to the terminal ID and second user ID corresponding to the device ID is completed.

Content processing device, server device, communication method, and storage medium containing computer program

An information-processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, communication method and computer program are disclosed wherein an evaluation value can be added automatically to contents stored in a storage apparatus or medium. The information-processing apparatus comprising an acquisition section which acquires, from a portable reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing contents data, reproduction history information of the contents data in the portable reproduction apparatus. An evaluation value arithmetic operation section arithmetically operates a computed evaluation value corresponding to the content data based on the reproduction history information acquired by the acquisition section. A transfer section transfers the computed evaluation value arithmetically operated by the evaluation value arithmetic operation section to the portable reproduction apparatus.

Apparatus and method for computing evaluation values of content data stored for reproduction

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.

Processing apparatus and associated methodology for content table generation and transfer

The present invention relates to a content-providing system, information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods and programs which are capable of keeping up with changes in content value. A license servertransmits a utilization condition and a price table to a terminal. The terminalhas set contents stored in advance in a database. In an offline environment, the terminalis capable of utilizing desired contents by using an electronic point count. The terminaltransmits information on contents used by the terminalto the license server. The license servercollects a history of utilizations of contents in the terminal, extracts apparatus favorite contents for the terminalfrom a database and properly transmits the favorite contents as well as price data reflecting changes in price to the terminal. The present invention is thus suitable for a system for providing contents.

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Kotaro Asaka