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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Atsushi Sakurai, Kanagawa, JP;
Hayato Koizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Oguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Sakurai, Kanagawa, JP;
Hayato Koizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Oguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is electronic equipment enjoying improved ease of use, and a highlighting method and a program to be implemented or installed in the electronic equipment. For example, a user performs manipulations so as to reproduce a content up to the middle of the content, and then turns off a power supply. When the user turns on the power supply next, a playback selection menu screen image is displayed and 'Playback from the middle thereof' is highlighted. Consequently, when the user wants to reproduce the content from the middle of the content, the user need not worry about whether to reproduce the content from the beginning or the middle thereof. The user should merely finalize the highlighted item. This would prove user-friendly and helpful. When the electronic equipment is used outdoors or the like, the number of manipulations to be performed on the equipment is smaller than the number of manipulations conventionally performed.