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- Patent Title: Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program and information processing system
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Application No.: US17145803Application Date: 2021-01-11
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Publication No.: US11336962B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Satoshi Hiroi , Yukio Ichikawa , Yumi Sato , Marie Suzuki , Yasushi Nakajima , Hiroshi Nagatani , Masahiro Hara , Hiroshi Horiki , Kouhei Fujimoto , Takeshi Matsuzawa , Hiroyuki Mitsubori , Sakae Houjou , Mingshan Yang
- Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: JP2008-140994 20080529
- Main IPC: H04N21/472
- IPC: H04N21/472 ; H04L12/28 ; H04N21/4722 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N21/482
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus receives a user selection of content to be reproduced by an external device connected to the information processing apparatus. A request to reproduce the user selected content is sent to the external device. Information indicating whether the external device has started reproducing the selected content is received from the external device. In response to the external device having started reproduction of the selected content, a thumbnail image is reproduced that corresponds to the content being reproduced by the external device.
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