Apparatus for replaying a recording medium having means for

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United States Patent [191 [11] Patent Number: 5,701,385
Katsuyama et a1. [45] Date of Patent: Dec. 23, 1997
[54] APPARATUS FOR REPLAYING A FOREIGN PATENT‘ DOCUMENTS
RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING MEANS
FOR DISPLAYING THE CONTENTS OF THE 0 389 878 1011990 European Pat. 01f. .
0 453 064 1011991 European Pat. O?‘. .
RECORDING MEDIUM AS GRAPHICS
0 449 6% 12/1991 European Pat. O?'. .
IMAGES WHICH INCLUDE A SERIES OF
0 479 188 4/1992 European Pat. O11‘. .
INTRA-PICTURES 0 479 233 4/1992 European Pat. O?'. .
0 497 252 8/1992 European Pat. 01f. .
[75] Inventors: Akira Katsuyama; Kenji Tomizawa; 0 569 244 11/1993 European Pat. 01f. .
Shuicbi Nagano; Takasbi Koya, all of 0 569 245 11/1993 European Pat. Oil‘. .
Kanagawa, Japan 0265167 4/1988 United Kingdom .
[73] Assignee: Sony Corporation. Tokyo, Japan Primary Examiner-Tommy P. Chin
Assistant Examiner-David R. Vincent
Attorney, Agent, or Firm-William S. Frommer; Alvin
[21] Appl. No.: 498,018
Sinderbrand
[22] Filed: Jul. 3, 1995
[57] ABSTRACT
[51] Int. Cl.6 H04N 5/91; H04N 7/04;
An apparatus for replaying a disc-shaped recording medium
H04N 5/917; H04N 5/781
on which ?rst video data where audio data or all of video
[52] US. Cl. 386/106; 386/111; 386/125;
information for one frame through MPEG has been
386/126; 345/146; 395/328 compressed, and second video data where video information
[5 3] Field of Search 358/341. 342, before and after the frame in question has been compressed
358/312, 335; 360/69; 369/48; 386/70, have been recorded together with discrimination data indi
39, 45. 105, 106, 96, 109, 111. 112, 125, cating the kind of the recording medium, includes areceiver,
126; 345/115, 118, 146; 395/326, 327, a replay unit and a display data producing unit. The receiver
328, 348; H04N 5/91, 7/04, 7/52, 7/06, receives a plurality of disc-shaped recording media. The
7/08 replay unit is selectively equipped with the disc-shaped
recording media which have been received in the receiver.
with the relative movement with respect to the receiver. The
[56] References Cited
replay unit includes a head for reading data recorded on the
loaded disc-shaped recording medium. The replay unit con
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS ducts the replay processing of the data read out from the
head. The display data producing unit produces a plurality of
4,755,978 7/1988 Kazuyuki et a]. .
display data for conducting a plurality of display indicating
5,101,364 3/1992 Davenportetal. 395/152
the contents recorded on the respective disc-shaped record
5,140,437 8/1992 Yonemitsu et a1. ................... .. 358/342
5,341,352 8/1994 Nobuyuki . ing media which have been received in the receiver within
5,396,340 3/1995 Ishii et a1. 358/342 one screen, on the basis of data or discrimination data
5,446,714 8/1995 Yoshio et a1. .... .. 369/48 recorded on the recording medium such as the ?rst video
5,471,316 11/1995 Sngawara et a1. 358/342 data or menu data sequentially read out by the reading unit
5,475,499 12/1995 Taguchi ............ .. 358/341 from the disc-shaped recording media which have been
5,497,241 3/1996 Ostroveretal. 358/341
loaded into the replay unit.
5,543,929 8/1996 Mankovitz et a1. 358/335
5,552,896 9/1996 Yoshida 358/342
5,586,237 12/1996 Baecker etal .. 395/133 14 Claims, 30 Drawing Sheets
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US. Patent Dec. 23, 1991 Sheet 1 of 30 5,701,385
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physical CD-ROM(XA)
format
MPEG1 conformation
pixel dimension (pixel number)/frame frequency :
352x240/29.97H2(NTSC)
diqit?l' 352X240/23.976Hz
video
352x288/25H2lPAL)
data transfer rate :
maximum 1.152Mbit/ sec
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replay time maximum 74 minutes
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still picture high-Resolulionleve|= 704X480(NTSC)
704X576(PAL)
normal replay. slow. Pause. etc
replay type
menu replay using playback control
video signal NTsC/PAL
output

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