Patent ID: 8565575

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing a content, comprising: a data acquiring section for acquiring content data, synchronization executing programs which are executed in synchronization with the respective content data, and synchronization timing information for reproducing the content data in synchronization with the respective synchronization executing programs; a decoder for converting the content data acquired by the data acquiring section into data for reproduction; a synchronization control section for transmitting a synchronization control signal at a timing specified by timing specifying information included in the synchronization timing information; a program executing section for executing the synchronization executing programs; and a memory for storing the synchronization executing programs acquired by the data acquiring section, the data acquiring section acquiring the synchronization executing programs at once and then storing the acquired synchronization execution programs in the memory before the dedcoder starts converting the content data into the data for reproduction, and the program executing section (i) registering an interrupt handler for dealing with interrupt during reproduction of the content data and (ii) executing, by using the registered interrupt handler, the synchronization executing programs stored in the memory, in accordance with the synchronization control signal transmitted from the synchronization control section.