Patent ID: 7420903
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. Electronic equipment comprising: a display unit on which a playback selection menu that prompts a user to select either head playback in which a content is reproduced from a beginning or middle playback in which the content is reproduced from a middle thereof can be displayed; a reproducing means for displaying the content on the display unit so as to thus reproduce it; a highlighting means for highlighting one of menu items, which are contained in the playback selection menu, on the display unit so that the menu item will be selected; a means for, in response to a power supply turnoff instruction issued during reproduction of the content by the reproducing means, storing information on a middle position in the content at which reproduction has been suspended; and a control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the playback selection menu when the power supply is turned on and when the information on the middle position in the content at which reproduction has been suspended is stored, and to cause the highlighting means to highlight a menu item indicating that reproduction will resume from a point where reproduction was suspended based on the stored information on the middle position in the content.