Sony Corporation

Yoko Kitahara

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Takuma Higo

Nobuo Ozawa

Takaharu Fujii

Ryuichiro Noto

Fumihisa Mizuochi

Masaru Kataoka

A content reproduction apparatus includes: a partial reproduction unit for partially reproducing only a predetermined partial reproduction range in an entire reproduction range of contents before switching to next contents to partially reproduce only a predetermined partial reproduction range in an entire reproduction range of the next contents; a creation unit for creating a status bar by superimposing a partial reproduction range bar indicating the partial reproduction range on an entire reproduction range bar indicating the entire reproduction range; a display unit for displaying a reproduction screen when the partial reproduction is performed by the partial reproduction unit; and a control unit for displaying the status bar as superimposed on the reproduction screen.

Content reproduction apparatus, status bar display method, and status bar display program

The present invention is equipped with a USB interfacefor being connected to a portable music player that is an external device, a browser button, a rotary encoder button, a back button, CPUfor acquiring a content list CL from the portable music player, RAMfor storing the content list CL acquired by the CPU, and a LED processing sectionfor changing how the rotary encoder buttonilluminates to encourage the next operation at a time when the browse buttonis operated. Accordingly, when searching pieces of music content stored in the portable music player that is an external device, one can unknowingly understand how to operate, thereby providing good operability even for searching pieces of music content of the external portable music player.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoko Kitahara