US 12,449,965 B2
Content management device, content management method, and computer-readable recording medium
Yohko Seike, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/234,054.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-140602 (JP), filed on Sep. 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0078000 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/147 (2006.01); G09F 9/30 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04847 (2013.01) [G06F 3/147 (2013.01); G09F 9/30 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A content management device including a processor that manages playback times of a plurality of pieces of content as visual content and manages scroll messages that are respectively set to the plurality of pieces of content and are played back simultaneously on a display with playback of the pieces of content, comprising:
a content playback time adjacency determiner that determines, by the processor, whether playback times of a first piece of content and a second piece of content are adjacent;
a common scroll message setting operation acceptor that accepts, by the processor, an operation to set a common scroll message common to the first piece of content and the second piece of content when the playback times of the first piece of content and the second piece of content are determined to be adjacent by the content playback time adjacency determiner; and
a playback controller that continuously plays back, by the processor, the common scroll message, on the display, across the playback time of the first piece of content and the playback time of the second piece of content when the common scroll message is set to the first piece of content and the second piece of content,
wherein, in the accepting, an operation by a user to specify a grouping range and group multiple pieces of content whose playback times are determined to be adjacent, among the plurality of pieces of content displayed on the display that displays, side by side, the plurality of pieces of content in chronological order according to a playback order, is accepted, and the common scroll message is set to the grouped multiple pieces of content.