Patent 7782719 was granted and assigned to Sony on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A reproducing apparatus comprises storage to store a plurality of programs being managed as a group, and management information including group information of programs, an input unit, a reproduction unit, and a controller to control the reproduction unit to reproduce a highlight of a program in a group from a plurality of groups. The highlight of the program may be representative of an album. Thus, when the highlight of the program is reproduced, a user can easily search for a desired album.