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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2003
Kentaro Tanikawa, Kadoma, JP;
Toshihiko Munetsugu, Katano, JP;
Yoshiaki Iwata, Moriguchi, JP;
Kazuhiro Nishitani, Osaka, JP;
Kentaro Tanikawa, Kadoma, JP;
Toshihiko Munetsugu, Katano, JP;
Yoshiaki Iwata, Moriguchi, JP;
Kazuhiro Nishitani, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A content reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is such that the content reproducing apparatus judges whether or not reproducing data of a replay segment pointed out by the skip instruction is skippable when a skip instruction from a user is accepted while a content is being reproduced. When a result of judgment is negative to the skip instruction, an alternative data is reproduced in place of data of the replay segment hat has been instructed to be skipped. When the reproducing of the alternative data is completed, so that data of the replay segment successive to the replay segment pointed out by the skip instruction is executed.