Patent ID: 8737806

Claim:
A reproduction device comprising: a reproduction unit that reproduces an audio-video signal; a user operation unit that inputs of commands by user operation; a resume function unit that manages reproduction start positions; and a control unit that controls the user operation unit and the resume function unit; wherein the resume function unit comprises: a first resume information generation and storage unit that generates and stores first resume information based at user operations as most recent, and a second resume information generation and storage unit that generates second resume information at regular reproduction time intervals by acquiring, each time an elapsed reproduction time reaches an integral multiple of a predetermined fixed time interval, information indicating a position of reproduction as the information indicating a resume point and stores it in the second resume information generation and storage unit, as the second resume information; and wherein the control unit is configured to select a position from among the positions indicated by the first resume information and the second resume information, and to cause the reproduction unit to restart reproduction from the selected position, if a reproduction stop operation position when an operation that stopped reproduction was made by the user operation unit in a non-resumable interval, in which resume information acquisition is not permitted, the control unit causes the reproduction unit to restart reproduction from a position based on the second resume information stored previously in the second resume information generation and storage unit, the position based on the second resume information being positioned immediately preceding the non-resumable interval.