1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a content processing apparatus, a content processing method, and a content processing system, and more particularly to facilitating use of identical content on different information processing apparatuses.
2. Description of the Related Art
Along with the popularization of the internet and advances in multimedia technology, information exchange over networks is developing to incorporate not only exchange of simple text data such as e-mail but also exchange of various content data such as sound data, image data, and movie data that includes both sound and video. These content data are exchanged among various types of terminals such as cell phones and laptop personal computers (PCs). To display content properly on various different terminals, a method to distribute content data converted to format corresponding to display capability of terminal that requested the content data has been proposed (e.g., JP-2007-11760-A.)
Meanwhile, apparatuses such as projectors and electronic whiteboards also use content data in addition to cell phones and laptop PCs. Also, the way the content is used is changing, from not simply passively viewing movies, listening to audio, and browsing images to being able to edit documents and images. Yet the technology described in JP-2007-11760-A is limited to passively displaying content, and moreover such technology cannot apply to apparatuses that do not have editing functions in the first place.
For example, in displaying and editing content in a format by using an electronic whiteboard in a conference room, to move to another conference room and continue the meeting, an apparatus that supports displaying and editing content in that format is necessary in the destination conference room. That means users cannot continue the meeting under the same conditions as in the original conference room in case the apparatus in the destination conference room lacks the capability to edit information even if content is distributed in a format adapted to the apparatus at the destination conference room.
It should be noted that this kind of issue can be a problem not only distributing information but also using content in a format on a different information processing apparatus.