Recorder and player
View Patent ↗A player according to the present disclosure includes: an interface that retrieves an audio file from a storage medium on which the audio file and a still picture file are stored; and a controller that retrieves a still picture file, which is selected by the file name of the audio file, from the storage medium and that reads audio and a still picture from the audio file and the still picture file, respectively.
1. A player comprising:
an interface configured to retrieve an audio file from a storage medium on which the audio file and a still picture file are stored;
a controller configured to retrieve a still picture file, which is selected by the file name of the audio file, from the storage medium and configured to reproduce audio and a still picture from the audio file and the still picture file, respectively; and
a user interface section that accepts a user's instruction to change the still pictures to be reproduced;
wherein:
the controller retrieves, from the storage medium, a still picture file that was generated while the audio file was being generated;
the controller continues to reproduce the same first still picture until the controller receives the instruction to change via the user interface section;
when receiving the instruction to change from the user via the user interface while reproducing the audio, the controller reproduces a second still picture distinct from the first still picture; and
a second still picture file representing the second still picture is generated earlier or later than a first still picture file representing the first still picture and is generated at the time closest to the time when the first still picture file is generated.
2. The player of claim 1 , wherein the controller reproduces the second still picture independent of whether the still picture file of the second still picture was generated while the audio file was being recorded.
3. The player of claim 1 , wherein if information indicating the order of recording has been added to the base name of a file that has been written on the storage medium and if a file system that allows the user to find the recording end time of the file is established on the storage medium,
the controller determines, by reference to the information and the recording end time of the audio file, what still picture file was recorded before the recording end time of the audio file.
4. The player of claim 1 , wherein if a file system that allows the user to find the recording end time of a file is established on the storage medium,
the controller retrieves, from the storage medium, a still picture file which was recorded before the recording end time of the audio file and of which the file name includes a part of the base name of the audio file.
5. The player of claim 1 , wherein the storage medium is a memory card.
6. The player of claim 1 , wherein the storage medium is a storage device that is connected to a network, and
wherein the interface retrieves the audio file and the still picture file from the storage device.
7. The player of claim 1 , further comprising:
a loudspeaker configured to output the audio; and
a monitor screen configured to present the still picture.
8. The player of claim 1 , further comprising at least one of an audio signal generator configured to generate an audio signal and an image signal generator configured to generate an image signal representing a still picture.