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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 19, 2011
Kotaro Hakoda, Osaka, JP;
Kotaro Hakoda, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
Sound is outputted, without giving the sense of incongruity to the user, even if reproduction of animation is stopped by the user. An animation acquiring sectionacquires animation data Drepresenting an animation generated in advance based on a setting operation by the user, and sound data Drepresenting a sound to be reproduced in association with the animation. A sound output control sectioncalculates stop time sound information representing a feature of the sound at a point of time at which reproduction of the animation is stopped, using sound attribute information D, in response to input of a stop command by the user, and determines a predetermined output method of the sound that matches the animation, based on the calculated stop time sound information, to reproduce the sound by the determined output method.