Patent ID: 9277261
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus which has a communication unit configured to communicate with an image capturing apparatus, and which reproduces video data obtained by sequentially acquiring segments each of which is a portion of the video data obtained by image capturing of the image capturing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to function as: a list requesting unit configured to request, via the communication unit, a segment list in which information of segments indicating at least one segment which the image capturing apparatus has not yet sent to the information processing apparatus among segments of video data being captured by the image capturing apparatus is written, from the image capturing apparatus; a list acquiring unit configured to acquire the segment list requested by the list requesting unit; a determination unit configured to determine which segment, from the segments in the segment list acquired by the list acquiring unit, to be played; a segment requesting unit configured to request, via the communication unit, the segment determined by the determination unit, from the image capturing apparatus; and a segment acquiring unit configured to acquire the segment requested by the segment requesting unit, wherein in the case where a number of segments in the segment list acquired by the list acquiring unit is greater than a first threshold, the segment requesting unit requests a predetermined segment from the segments in the segment list; and wherein the predetermined segment among segments which has not been sent yet is neither the latest segment nor the earliest segment in the segment list.