Apparatus for and method of recording information, apparatus for and method of reproducing ...

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US008488948B2
(12) United States Patent
(10) Patent N0.: US 8,488,948 B2
Kanegae et al. (45) Date of Patent: *Jul. 16, 2013
(54) APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF (52) us. c1.
RECORDING INEORMATION, APPARATUS USPC .......................... .. 386/332; 386/248; 386/353
FOR AND METHOD OF REPRODUCING (58) Field Of Classi?cation Search
INFORMATION, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND USPC ........................................ .. 386/248, 332, 353
INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM See application ?le for complete search history.
(75) Inventors: Tohru Kanegae, TokoroZaWa (JP); (56) References Cited
Masanori Nakahara, TokoroZaWa (JP);
Takao SaWabe, TokoroZaWa (JP); U-S~ PATENT DOCUMENTS
Takeshi Koda, TokoroZaWa (JP); 5,434,678 A 7/1995 Abecassis
Nobuyuki TakakuWa, TokoroZaWa (JP); 5,627,655 A 5/1997 Okamoto et a1~
Yasuko Fukuda, TokoroZaWa (JP) (Continued)
(73) Assignee: Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo-to (JP) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
CN 1167311 12/1997
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this EP 1 052 644 11/2000
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (Continued)
U.S.C. 154(b) by 1599 days.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
This patent is subject to a terminal dis- _
Claimer' Patent Abstracts of Japan of Japanese Patent laid-open N0. 2000
57746, published Feb. 25, 2000 (abstract only).
(21) Appl. N0.: 12/003,594 (Continued)
(22) Filed: Dec‘ 28’ 2007 Primary Examiner * Gelek W Topgyal
(65) Prior Publication D at a Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Drinker Biddle & Reath
US 2008/0159720 A1 Jul. 3, 2008
(57) ABSTRACT
Related US‘ Application Data Provided is an information recording apparatus Which, in a
(63) Continuation of application No. 10/313,015, ?led on State Where the Content ofmoving Picture image information,
Dec_ 6, 2002, now pat NO 8,027,561 etc. can be prevented from being inadvertently recognized by
the user due to inadvertent presentation to the user of a rel
(30) Foreign Application Priority Data evant representative picture image, enables recording the
respective information into a recording medium. A reproduc
Dec. 7, 2001 (JP) ............................. .. P2001-374947 tion list PL that is to be reproduced is not only recorded into
an optical disc 1 but is there also recorded in it a reproduction
(51) IIlt- Cl- list display prohibition ?ag PHF indicating at least Whether
H04N 5/84 (2006.01) limiting the display of a representative picture image that
H0 41V 5/8 9 (2006-01) represents the content of the reproduction list PL.
H04N 9/80 (2006.01)
H04N 5/93 (2006.01) 17 Claims, 25 Drawing Sheets
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US. Patent Jul. 16, 2013 Sheet 4 0f 25 US 8,488,948 B2
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