Patent ID: 8875020
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F,G10H,G11B,H04M

Abstract:
1. A portable information processing apparatus comprising: a replay processing unit that replays content data; a synchronous display unit that selects a piece of associated information corresponding to a replayed portion of the content data from a plurality of pieces of associated information contained in associated data corresponding to the content data, and instructs to display the associated information thus selected; and an output controlling unit that displays the associated information that is selected by the synchronous display unit in an associated information display area arranged in a display unit, wherein upon accepting an operation requesting to display associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion of the content data out of the pieces of the associated information contained in the associated data corresponding to the content data, the synchronous display unit selects the associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion based on the operation and instructs the output controlling unit to display the information, and the replay processing unit continues, as asynchronous display, the replay of the replayed portion of the content data independently of the display of associated data, even if the associated data other than associated data corresponding to the replayed portion of the content data is displayed, wherein when a predetermined time elapses after the associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion is selected, the synchronous display unit ends selecting the associated information other than the one corresponding to the replayed portion and the output controlling unit automatically switches displayed associated information, after the predetermined time has elapsed when subsequent associated information or replayed associated information is displayed, from the associated information to associated information corresponding to the replayed portion of the content data of time after the predetermined time has elapsed, and wherein the content data is audio data.