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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Buffalo, Inc., Nagoya-shi, JP;
Naoki Matsumoto, Nagoya, JP;
BUFFALO, INC., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A storage device includes a storage retaining content data, an input receiving instructions to reproduce the content data stored in the storage and a reproducer outputting the content data to an external reproducing device. The storage retains a table including identification information of the external reproducing device and a data format of the content data reproducible in the external reproducing device. The reproducer includes a notifier notifying reproduction information necessary for the external reproducing device to reproduce the content data before the content data are outputted to the external reproducing device in response to a reproduction instruction, and a data controller acquiring unique identification information for the external reproducing device when the external reproducing device is connected to the storage device and converting the content data into the data format reproducible in the external reproducing device and outputting the content data thereto.