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Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Satoshi Hiroi, Chiba, JP;

Yukio Ichikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Yumi Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Marie Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;

Yasushi Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Nagatani, Kanagawa, JP;

Masahiro Hara, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Horiki, Tokyo, JP;

Kouhei Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Takeshi Matsuzawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroyuki Mitsubori, Kanagawa, JP;

Sakae Houjou, Tokyo, JP;

Mingshan Yang, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04N 21/4722 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/472 (2013.01); H04L 12/2812 (2013.01); H04N 21/4722 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04L 2012/2849 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information processing apparatus receives a user selection of content to be reproduced by an external device connected to the information processing apparatus. A request to reproduce the user selected content is sent to the external device. Information indicating whether the external device has started reproducing the selected content is received from the external device. In response to the external device having started reproduction of the selected content, a thumbnail image is reproduced that corresponds to the content being reproduced by the external device.


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