Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Sotaro Maejima

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Yasuhiro Mochida

The present disclosure is intended to enable playback of media data corresponding to a sensibility effect set in advance. A content playback device () of the present disclosure includes: a device table production unit () holding a device table in which a format of media data that can be played back and a device parameter are determined for each device; a media table production unit () configured to acquire metadata including the format and a sensibility effect label of the media data, determine a mapping evaluation scale that is a device parameter corresponding to the sensibility effect label, and produce a media table in which the mapping evaluation scale and the format are determined for each media data; and a mapping determination unit () configured to extract, based on the formats, a combination pattern of a device on which media data can be played back and the media data, select, from among extracted combination patterns, a combination pattern for which a relative error between the device parameter and the mapping evaluation scale is minimum, and select a device that is an output destination of the media data.

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Musashino, Japan

Sotaro Maejima