Patent ID: 9172938
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content reproduction method of selecting at least one video content item from a plurality of video content items captured by a plurality of cameras and reproducing the selected at least one video content item, each of the video content items being associated with metadata that describes (a) a time stamp indicating a capturing time and (b) spatial information indicating features of space relating to a corresponding one of the cameras at the capturing time, the content reproduction method comprising: selecting at least one target video content item to be reproduced from among the video content items based on the time stamp and the spatial information described in each of pieces of metadata including the metadata, the pieces of the metadata being associated with a corresponding one of the video content items; determining a reproduction start position of the at least one target video content item based on the time stamp described in the metadata associated with the at least one target video content item; and reproducing the at least one target video content item from the reproduction start position, wherein, when at least one first video content item among the video content items has already been reproduced, in the selecting of the at least one target video content item, at least one second video content item is selected as the at least one target video content item, from among the video content items except the at least one first video content item, based on the time stamp and the spatial information described in the each of the pieces of the metadata, in the reproducing, the at least one first video content item is switched to the at least one second video content item at a position corresponding to the reproduction start position, and the at least one second video content item is reproduced from the reproduction start position, and the switching in the reproducing is caused by switching, on at least a part of a display screen, from display of the at least one first video content item to display of the at least one second video content item.