Patent ID: 11936962
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. An information processing method, comprising:
receiving a segment file and a setting file in which a group to which the segment file belongs is set, wherein the segment file includes a plurality of segments;
extracting at least one MP4 sample from MP4 samples included in a segment of the plurality of segments of the received segment file;
adding attribute information to the at least one MP4 sample,
wherein the attribute information includes a reproduction start time of the at least one MP4 sample and group information that indicates the group to which the at least one MP4 sample belongs;

accepting a switching operation of the group;
determining, based on the accepted switching operation of the group and the attribute information, a switching position at which the segment file belonging to the group after the switching operation is output in units of the MP4 samples; and
outputting an output signal corresponding to the switching position to an output device, wherein
the output signal is based on the segment file belonging to the group after the switching operation.