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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Takatoshi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Masamichi Asukai, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuru Takehara, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuya Shirai, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takatoshi Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Masamichi Asukai, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuru Takehara, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuya Shirai, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiro Terauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A content playback apparatus includes: a display section that displays a plurality of indicators associated with a plurality of pieces of content, and a specifier to be used to specify one of the indicators; a playback section that plays back the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier; a switch section that switches, in accordance with a user's operation, what the specifier specifies to new the indicator; and a playback control section that controls the playback section such that if the user's operation switches, while the piece of content associated with the indicator specified by the specifier is played, what the specifier specifies to next the indicator and the user's subsequent operation switches, within a predetermined period of time from when the previous switch is completed, what the specifier specifies to subsequent the indicator, the playback section keeps playing back the piece of content.