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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2006
Mie Namai, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Yuasa, Chiba, JP;
Shuichi Otsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a content distributing system, a content distributing method, a control apparatus, a control method, a playback apparatus, a playback method, and a program that are capable of improving operability of the control apparatus. A rendereridentifies a category of content to be played back and transmits an identification result of the category to a controller. In the controller, a receiving unitreceives the identification result transmitted from the renderer, and the displayperforms a process of allowing a user to recognize a command to provide instructions about handling executable to the content to be played back among commands to provide instructions about handling of content in the rendererbased on the identification result. Also, the display, which has a function of a touch-panel, accepts an operation of specifying a command by the user.