Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-23
2011-11-01
Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C700S094000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08049094
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a program capable of automatically reproducing music, which has been reproduced at the time of pickup of an image, along with reproduction of the image. A reproduction device11includes a data storage unit22that stores data items of pieces of music, data items of images to which time instants at which the images are produced are appended, and a history table having pieces of music, which have been reproduced in the past, and time instants, at which the pieces of music have been reproduced, associated with each other. A time instant at which an image is produced is acquired from the data of the image, which has reproduction thereof instructed by a user, out of the data items of the images stored in the data storage unit22. The history table stored in the data storage unit22is referenced. Based on the time instants at which the pieces of music have been reproduced and the time instant at which the image is produced, music to be reproduced together with the image is determined. The present invention can be applied to, for example, a digital camera having a music reproduction function.
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Donels Jeffrey
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Sony Corporation
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