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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:
Aug. 19, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2007
Applicants:

Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;

Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;

Yuichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;

Hirofumi Tamori, Tokyo, JP;

Makoto Inoue, Tokyo, JP;

Katsuya Shirai, Kanagawa, JP;

Kenichi Makino, Kanagawa, JP;

Motoyuki Takai, Tokyo, JP;

Takatoshi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;

Akihiro Komori, Tokyo, JP;

Akane Sano, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Susumu Takatsuka, Tokyo, JP;

Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;

Yuichi Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;

Hirofumi Tamori, Tokyo, JP;

Makoto Inoue, Tokyo, JP;

Katsuya Shirai, Kanagawa, JP;

Kenichi Makino, Kanagawa, JP;

Motoyuki Takai, Tokyo, JP;

Takatoshi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;

Akihiro Komori, Tokyo, JP;

Akane Sano, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content databasehas stored a plurality of music contents. A CPUcreates genre ranks such that music contents that have been more frequently, for example, reproduced are more highly ranked. In addition, the CPUcreates play lists corresponding, for example, to tempos and stores the created play lists in a play list database. The CPUselects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection sectionand selects music content categorized as a highly ranked genre in the genre ranks from those corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content is supplied to a decoder and amplifier sectionand then reproduced from a head phone


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