Patent ID: 7610260

Claim:
A storage medium storing a plurality of pieces of content data, each of the plurality of pieces of content data stored in the storage medium captured by a camera and/or audio recorder and having metadata attached thereto, the metadata including information regarding a status, the status determined at a time of capture, the time of capture being a time the piece of content data was captured by the camera and/or audio recorder; a processor configured to calculate a recollection value of each of the plurality of pieces of content data stored in the storage medium using the metadata associated with the piece of content data and to select a piece of content data from the plurality of pieces of content data stored in the storage medium to be output, the selected piece of content data selected based on the recollection values of the individual pieces of content data; an output device for outputting the selected piece of content data; wherein the output device is configured to adjust an output parameter in accordance with an emotional value and a nostalgia value; wherein the selected piece of content data is audio data captured by the audio recorder, the audio recorder having a microphone, wherein when the piece of content data that is output is the audio data, the output device adjusts at least a parameter regarding output level in accordance with a magnitude of the emotional value and adjusts at least a parameter regarding audio quality in accordance with a magnitude of the nostalgia value.