Patent ID: 6850971

Claim:
An information acquisition apparatus for reproducing information stored in an information recording medium, and for communicating with at least one information server as a database of related information related to the information recording medium through an Internet, comprising: reading means for automatically initiating reading of one or more music as contents information and predetermined address information when the information recording medium is set into the information acquisition apparatus, in which said music and said predetermined address information indicating an address of a homepage provided in the information server are stored on the information recording medium beforehand; reproducing means for reproducing said music being read by said reading means; address-information acquisition means processing for acquiring said predetermined address information to obtain the related information for the set information recording medium from said reading means in parallel with music reproduction initiated by said reproducing means; and related-information acquisition means processing for accessing the homepage of the information server through the Internet based on said address information acquired by said address-information acquisition means in parallel with said music reproduction initiated by said reproducing means, and for acquiring any of said related information such as a list of music title, a lyric, a name of singer, a homepage of the singer, a name of lyricist, a name of composer, names of players, a title of the information recording medium, and a picture of jacket of the information recording medium; display control means processing for displaying said related information acquired by said related-information acquisition means; and control means for processing each of said address-information acquisition means, said related-information acquisition means, and said display control means in parallel with said music reproduction processed by said reproducing means.