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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2014
Rie Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Ozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Fujikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Rie Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Sakai, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Torii, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Ozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuya Fujikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display apparatus connected to a content server via a network, includes a content acquisition unit that acquires content with an input format; an input format detection unit that detects an input format of content to be acquired; a storage unit that stores information on the content server connected to the display apparatus; a server search unit that searches for a content server in the network; and a server connection unit that, upon the input format detection unit detecting that the input format of the content to be acquired is an input format of content acquired from a content server, connects to at least one of a content server specified by the information stored in the storage unit and a content server searched for and detected by the server search unit.