Patent ID: 8321898
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A content display-playback system comprising: a content providing apparatus; a content display-playback apparatus; and a portable operation control apparatus for controlling the content providing apparatus and the content display-playback apparatus by wirelessly communicating with the content providing apparatus and the content display-playback apparatus, wherein on the basis of operation control by the operation control apparatus, content is transmitted from the content providing apparatus to the content display-playback apparatus for display and playback through a network, the operation control apparatus includes, in a same housing: when the input operation reception unit receives an operation input for transmitting the content from the content providing apparatus to the content display-playback apparatus for display and playback, the control signal generating unit generates a control signal for selecting a predetermined content display-playback apparatus on the basis of the selection-history information stored in the storage unit and transmitting the content from the content providing apparatus to the selected content display-playback apparatus for display and playback, such that a display-playback apparatus having a highest frequency of being selected is automatically selected by default for display and playback, wherein one of content-display-playback-and-operation-control apparatuses, each having a content display-playback function, is used as the operation control apparatus, the control signal generating unit selects a predetermined content-display-playback-and-operation-control apparatus or content display-playback apparatus on the basis of selection-history information of the content-display-playback-and-operation-control apparatuses and the content display-playback apparatuses, and when the operation control apparatus performs a playback-control operation for requesting one content display-playback apparatus to perform playback, depending on at least a present operating state of the one content display-playback apparatus, the one content display-playback apparatus determines whether to be controlled by the playback-control operation, the present operating state indicating a status of displaying and playing back of content by the one content display-playback apparatus by a user.