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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2000
Fumihiko Yoshii, Tokyo, JP;
Keiko Tada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to this invention, when the header is detected from the digital music contents that has been stored in the flash memory and has the header composed of the reproducible period of time, the number of reproducible times and the number of reproduced times, and the music data, if reproducing instruction is given, the number of reproduced times is incremented and updated according to the above instruction, and at the same time, when the number of reproduced times is within the range of the number of reproducible times, the music data is reproduced according to the reproducing instruction. Thereby, its reproducing processing without limitation over the reproducible period of time can be surely prevented.