REPRODUCING CONTROL DEVICE, REPRODUCING CONTROL PROGRAM AND CONTENTS REPRODUCING DEVICE

Abstract

A battery charger includes: a resume information table for storing resume information about contents to be started to be reproduced with a portable player being connected to the battery charger; a writing unit that writes resume information about a tune being reproduced just before the portable player is disconnected from the battery charger into the resume information table; and an instructing unit that reads the resume information stored in the resume information table when the portable player is connected to the battery charger, and transmits an instruction for reproducing a specified tune to the portable player.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a contents reproducing system according to a preferable embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2A is a block diagram illustrating a constitution of a portable player 11;

FIG. 2B is a diagram illustrating a data structure of a contents information database;

FIG. 2C is a block diagram illustrating a data structure of contents information,

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a constitution of a battery charger 300;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a resume information table;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for selecting tunes;

FIGS. 6( a) to 6(c) are diagrams illustrating respective lists;

FIG. 7A is a flowchart illustrating a tune selecting process;

FIG. 7B is a flowchart illustrating the tune selecting process;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a resume information writing process;

FIG. 9A is a diagram illustrating a resume reproducing process of the battery charger;

FIG. 9B is a flowchart illustrating a resume reproducing process of the portable player 11;

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a resume information table;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating the resume information writing process;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating the resume reproducing process of the battery charger;

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating the resume information table;

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating the resume reproducing process of the battery charger;

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a constitution of an amplifier; and

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a constitution of the portable player.

Claims

1. A reproducing control device, comprising: a connecting unit that is connected to a contents reproducing device which reproduces content selected from a plurality of contents;a receiving unit that receives the reproduced content from the contents reproducing device;a resume information storage unit that stores resume information about the content to be started to be reproduced with the contents reproducing device being connected to the connecting unit;a connection determining unit that determines whether the connecting unit is connected to the contents reproducing device;a writing unit that writes the resume information about the content reproduced just before the contents reproducing device is disconnected from the connecting unit into the resume information storage unit; andan instructing unit that, when the connection determining unit determines that the connecting unit is connected to the contents reproducing device, reads the resume information stored in the resume information storage unit so as to transmit an instruction for reproducing content specified by the resume information to the contents reproducing device.

2. The reproducing control device according to claim 1, wherein the connection determining unit further determines whether the connecting unit is disconnected from the contents reproducing device,when the connection determining unit determines that the connecting unit is disconnected from the contents reproducing device, the writing unit writes the resume information into the resume information storage unit.

3. The reproducing control device according to claim 1, further comprising: an input unit that inputs a resume reproducing instruction therein,wherein when the connection determining unit determines that the connecting unit is connected to the contents reproducing device and the resume reproducing instruction is input into the input unit, the instructing unit transmits the reproducing instruction of the content specified by the resume information to the contents reproducing device.

4. The reproducing control device according to claim 1, wherein the resume information storage unit includes contents specifying information for specifying the content and list specifying information for specifying a list including the contents as the resume information,the instructing unit reads the contents specifying information and the list specifying information from the resume information storage unit so as to transmit them to the contents reproducing device.

5. The reproducing control device according to claim 1, further comprising: a change determining unit that determines whether the contents recorded in the contents reproducing device connected to the connecting unit are changed from contents recorded in the contents reproducing device just before the connection is released,wherein when the change determining unit determines that the contents are not changed, the instructing unit transmits the instruction for reproducing the content specified by the resume information to the contents reproducing device,wherein when the change determining unit determines that the contents are changed, the instructing unit does not transmit the instruction for reproducing the content specified by the resume information to the contents reproducing device.

6. The reproducing control device according to claim 1, wherein the resume information storage unit can store identification information about one or a plurality of contents reproducing device(s) and the resume information related with the identification information therein, the reproducing control device further comprising:an identification information acquiring unit that acquires identification information about the contents reproducing device connected to the connecting unit from the contents reproducing device; andan identification information determining unit that determines whether the acquired identification information matches the identification information stored in the resume information storage unit,wherein when the identification information determining unit determines that two pieces of the information match, the instructing unit transmits an instruction for reproducing the content specified by the resume information related with the matched identification information to the contents reproducing device.

7. A battery charger for contents reproducing device, comprising: the reproducing control device according to claim 1;a power source supplying circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to the contents reproducing device; anda transmitting unit that transmits the contents received by the receiving unit to an amplifier to be connected to the outside.

8. An amplifier, wherein the contents includes audio, the amplifier comprising: the reproducing control device according to claim 1; andan amplifying unit that amplifies the audio received by the receiving unit.

9. A reproducing control program which is an operating program of a reproducing control device capable of being connected to a contents reproducing device for reproducing content selected from a plurality of contents, the program allows a computer to execute: the receiving step of receiving the reproduced contents from the contents reproducing device;the connection determining step of determining whether the reproducing control device is connected to the contents reproducing device;the writing step of writing resume information about the content reproduced just before the contents reproducing device is disconnected from the reproducing control device into a resume information table;the reading step of, when the determination is made that the reproducing control device is connected to the contents reproducing device, reading the resume information stored in the resume information table; andthe instructing step of transmitting an instruction for reproducing content specified by the read resume information to the contents reproducing device.

10. A contents reproducing device, comprising: a reproducing unit that reproduces content selected from a plurality of contents;a connecting unit that is connected to an external device as a transmission destination of the contents;a transmitting unit that transmits the reproduced contents to the external device;a first resume information storage unit that stores resume information about content to be started to be reproduced with the connecting unit being disconnected from the external device therein;a second resume information storage unit that stores resume information about content to be started to be reproduced with the connecting unit being connected to the external device;a connection determining unit that determines whether the connecting unit is connected to the external device; anda writing unit that writes resume information about content being reproduced by the reproducing unit just before the connecting unit is disconnected from the external device into the second resume information storage unit,wherein when the connection determining unit determines that the connecting unit is connected to the external device, the reproducing unit reads the resume information stored in the second resume information storage unit and starts to reproduce content specified by the resume information.