Patent ID: 8945008
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising: a content providing section that provides entertainment content comprising a movie, music, and/or a photo; a biological information measuring section that measures at least one user's biological information while the entertainment content is reproduced; an environment measuring section that measures at least one environmental characteristic of the at least one user's surrounding environment while the entertainment content is reproduced, the at least one environmental characteristic being selected from the group consisting of temperature, humidity, airflow volume, atmospheric pressure, weather, and location; a sensing metadata generating section that generates sensing metadata using information detected by the biological information measuring section and the environment measuring section; a recording processing section that records in at least one storage medium the sensing metadata and the entertainment content such that the sensing metadata are associated with the entertainment content, and such that the at least one measured environmental characteristic is associated with the entertainment content that was being reproduced when the at least one environmental characteristic was measured; and a reproducing controlling section that reproduces the entertainment content a second time different from the first time, in an enhanced reproducing mode adapted, based on the sensing metadata, to reinforce the at least one user's memory of changes of the at least one user's emotion that occurred while the entertainment content was reproduced the first time and/or the at least one user's surrounding environment that was measured while the entertainment content was reproduced the first time, wherein reproducing the entertainment content the second time in the enhanced reproducing mode comprises adjusting one or more features within the entertainment content to cause the memory to recur.