Patent ID: 8744142
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An information reproducing apparatus comprising: a recorder configured to record viewer information based on information on a face recognized by a face recognizing processor; a setting processor configured to set information to be displayed on a display in accordance with the viewer information; an information reproducing processor configured to reproduce first information set by the setting processor on the display, if a face of a user recognized by the face recognizing processor is associated with the viewer information; and reproduce second information differing from the first information on the display, if a face of a user recognized by the face recognizing processor is not associated with the viewer information; and a reproduction position setting processor configured to permit a user to set a reproduction position of the first information or the second information on the display, wherein in a first time zone, the information reproducing processor reproduces information as the first information or the second information with a plurality of first applications, and in a second time zone differing from a first time zone, the information reproducing processor reproduces information with a plurality of second applications differing from the plurality of first applications, as the first information or the second information, wherein one or more applications are provided to reproduce information as the first information in the first time zone, the one or more applications being included in the plurality of first applications, and an application is provided to reproduce information as the second information in the first time zone, the application differing from the one or more applications included in the plurality of first applications, wherein one or more applications are provided to reproduce information as the first information in the second time zone, the one or more applications being included in the plurality of second applications, and an application is provided to reproduce information as the second information in the second time zone, the application differing from the one or more applications included in the plurality of second applications, wherein the plurality of first applications or the plurality of second applications are selectively operated in accordance with (i) whether a time zone in which the information reproducing processor reproduces the information is the first time zone or the second time zone, and (ii) whether the face recognizing processor recognizes a face of a viewer associated with the viewer information recorded by the recorder or a face of a viewer who is not associated with the viewer information, wherein a selectively operated one or ones of the plurality of first applications or the plurality of second applications are stopped when the viewer whose face is recognized by the face recognizing processor goes away from the display so that the face recognizing processor becomes unable to recognize the face of the viewer, and wherein the reproduction position setting processor include: a processing unit configured to enable, in a case of setting the reproduction position of said one of the first information and the second information, a user to set the reproduction position if a user moves a user's finger off an image of the first information or the second information at a desired position on a screen of the display after touching the image with the finger and dragging the image.