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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2011
Applicants:

Kenji Odaka, Fuchu, JP;

Satoshi Ozaki, Hamura, JP;

Naoki Esaka, Tachikawa, JP;

Shirou Wakayama, Ome, JP;

Kensaku Fujimoto, Ome, JP;

Yosuke Takahashi, Akishima, JP;

Inventors:

Kenji Odaka, Fuchu, JP;

Satoshi Ozaki, Hamura, JP;

Naoki Esaka, Tachikawa, JP;

Shirou Wakayama, Ome, JP;

Kensaku Fujimoto, Ome, JP;

Yosuke Takahashi, Akishima, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a content playback apparatus includes a playback module, a decision module, and a management module. The playback module is configured to play back a content includes components selected from moving picture data, image data, sound data and text data, thereby to produce video data and audio data. The decision module is configured to determine, based on a state of the content playback apparatus, whether the components of the content can be viewed and listened to. The management module is configured to manage video-audio management data includes data items based on a decision result of the decision module, each data item representing whether a video or audio data item has been viewed or listened to.


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