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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2006
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Kotaro Asaka, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tsukazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kinouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Ozawa, Chiba, JP;
Junichiro Sakata, Tokyo, JP;
Kotaro Asaka, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Tsukazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kinouchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Ozawa, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position Pin a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position Pwith the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position Pwhere the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding, to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.