IP Library Granted Patent US 8,861,930
Granted Patent B2
US 8,861,930 · App. 13/302,453 · Granted Oct 14, 2014

Content playback apparatus, content playback method and storage medium

Inventors: 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)
Assignee: Thomson Licensing
G11B27/105G11B27/34G11B19/025
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Patent No.
US 8,861,930
App. No.
13/302,453
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (10)

1. A non-transitory storage medium storing an image viewing program that, when executed, causes an image viewing apparatus to implement a method of:

displaying a plurality of thumbnails corresponding to a respective plurality of images;

detecting a selection of a thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails; and

displaying an image of the plurality of images corresponding to the selected thumbnail, wherein

if, while displaying a first image of the plurality of images corresponding to a first thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails, a selection of a second thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails is detected, and a selection of a third thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails is subsequently detected within a predetermined period of time after the selection of the second thumbnail is detected, continuing to display the first image, at least until the selection of the third thumbnail is detected, and

if, while displaying the first image, the selection of the second thumbnail is detected, and a selection of another thumbnail of the plurality of thumbnails is not detected within the predetermined period of time after detecting the selection of the second thumbnail, ceasing display of the first image, and displaying a second image of the plurality of images, the second image corresponding to the second thumbnail.

2. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of thumbnails are displayed side by side in a row.

3. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of thumbnails are displayed along an axis in a chronological order.

4. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 3 , wherein the axis is horizontal and the chronological order is based on a plurality of dates and times associated with the plurality of thumbnails.

5. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the thumbnail is detected in accordance with a user's touch.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 7, 2015
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: THOMSON LICENSING SAS
Reel/Frame 034652/0590 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2006-014214 · Jan 23, 2006 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 11654730 · Jan 18, 2007
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