|Publication number||US7646965 B2|
|Application number||US 10/143,499|
|Publication date||Jan 12, 2010|
|Priority date||May 12, 2001|
|Also published as||CN1297143C, CN1386011A, CN1971747A, EP1256954A2, EP1256954A3, EP2017849A2, EP2017849A3, EP2058816A2, EP2058816A3, US8073305, US8081862, US8090237, US8437605, US8515242, US8699850, US8938152, US8965174, US9336828, US20020176693, US20090122692, US20090123137, US20090129251, US20100209076, US20110150422, US20130209064, US20140126880, US20140178037, US20150093095|
|Publication number||10143499, 143499, US 7646965 B2, US 7646965B2, US-B2-7646965, US7646965 B2, US7646965B2|
|Inventors||Jang Hui Cho, Jea Yong Yoo, Sung Wan Park, Mi Hyun Kim, Kang Soo Seo, Soung Hyun Um, Byung Jin Kim|
|Original Assignee||Lg Electronics Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (28), Non-Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (3), Classifications (27), Legal Events (2)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a recording medium on which moving picture data have been recorded together with script files including additional information related with the moving picture data.
The present invention further relates to a method of linking script files with moving picture data and relates to method and apparatus of reproducing the moving picture data along with script files thereof.
2. Description of the Related Art
An optical disk such as DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) being able to store digital data is widely used in these days. A DVD can store not only audio data but also moving picture data of long time. A DVD has two recording partitions, one for storing digital data stream such as moving picture data, and the other for storing navigation data which are used to control reproduction of the stored digital data stream.
Thus, when a DVD having digital data stream thereon is placed into a conventional DVD player, the player reads out the reproduction-controlling data written in the navigation data partition first and stores them in a memory equipped therein. Afterwards, the DVD player can select or search for an arbitrary section of moving picture data using the reproduction-controlling data in the memory and playback it.
A DVD may include additional information about moving picture data recorded thereon. Namely, a DVD may include scene descriptive texts and introduction of characters, etc. besides video and audio data. Such additional information may be informed to a viewer who wants more information about moving pictures being presented.
However, how to link such additional information with moving picture data and how to reproduce it along with moving picture data are not yet decided.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of linking additional information with each section of moving picture data and of storing the additional information.
It is another object of the present invention to provide method and apparatus of reproducing a recording medium including the additional information as well as moving picture data thereon.
A recording medium in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that it has data comprising: moving picture data; additional information, written in the form of file, related with said moving picture data; and link information linking said at least one link information file with said moving picture data.
A method of reproducing a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that it comprises the steps of: determining whether there is at least one file including additional information for moving picture data on a recording medium; selecting a piece of link information linking said at least one link information file with at least one section of moving picture data based on the determination result, reading the selected piece of link information from the recording medium, and storing the read piece of link information into storage means other than the recording medium; and searching for an additional information file linked with presently reproduced moving picture data with reference to the stored piece of link information, and outputting contents of the found additional information file together with moving picture data.
An apparatus of reproducing a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that it comprises: a data pickup reading data recorded on a recording medium; a data storage for storing a piece of link information, read by said data pickup, linking at least one file, which includes additional information about moving picture data recorded on the recording medium, with moving picture data; and a controller searching for an additional information file linked with presently reproduced moving picture data based on the piece of link information stored in said data storage, and having contents of the found additional information file presented.
The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understandings of the invention, illustrate the preferred embodiments of the invention, and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
In order that the invention may be fully understood, example embodiments thereof will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Embodiments of a method linking additional information with moving picture data in accordance with the present invention are described first.
In the SFZ, at least one link data file, which links script files with corresponding sections of moving picture data, may be included.
The additional information in the script file may be written in the conventional HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) format, and a single script file is linked with at least one a predetermined-sized VOBU (Video OBject Unit) which is defined in the general DVD recording standard.
In addition, the link data file may be created for each PGCI (ProGram Chain Information) which is also defined in the general DVD recording standard, and it is composed of link entries where each entry consists of a script file identifier and an address of VOBUs associated with a script file.
In the PGCI, 4-byte-long PGC Content field is included as shown in
The 1-bit ‘Script Flag’ indicates whether or not script files are linked with an associated program chain. If the ‘Script Flag’ is set it means that there are linked script files, and if reset it means that there are not.
If there are linked script files, information for linking each script file with a corresponding section of moving picture data belonging to a program chain is stored in a link data file.
In the example of a link data file depicted in
When a DVD including the above-explained script files and at least one link data file thereon is placed into a DVD player a program chain to reproduce is selected at the same time from a user, the DVD player checks the 1-bit ‘Script Flag’ written in the PGC Content field ‘PGC_CNT’ in PGCI of the selected program chain, first. If the ‘Script Flag’ is 1, the DVD player considers that script files associated with the selected program chain have been written in the SFZ, reads a data link file associated with the selected program chain from the SFZ, and stores the read data link file in a memory. In these successive operations, all script files in the SFZ may be read out and then stored in the memory along with the link data file.
Afterwards, the selected program chain is reproduced. If script display mode is activated, the DVD player examines all link entries in the link data file, stored in the memory, associated with the program chain being presented in order to search for an address which is equal to a start address of a VOBU being reproduced. If the same address is found in the link entries, the DVD player obtains a recording address or a filename of a script file combined with the found address through a delimiter ‘/’, and decodes data contained in the identified script file by the obtained recording address or filename while reading the script file from the memory or the DVD. Through these operations, a viewer is able to view additional information related with the presented moving pictures at the same time while watching the moving pictures.
In the above embodiment, an additional link data file is necessary to link script files with moving picture data. However, script files can be linked directly with moving picture data without the above-explained link data file.
Therefore, a DVD player reads all script files written in the SFZ of a DVD and knows each start address of a VOBU to be presented with a script file based on each filename before starting reproduction. Afterwards, if there is a filename matched with an address of a VOBU being presented now, the DVD player reads data in a script file having the matched filename and decodes out them. Through these operations, a viewer can view additional information related with the presented moving pictures at the same time while watching the moving pictures.
Entire script files may be retrieved from a DVD and then stored in a memory at an initial disk loading process when a DVD is placed. Otherwise, linked script files are retrieved from a DVD and then decoded sequentially when a viewer activates script display mode. If a memory has enough storage capacity, a user's script display request may be responded to after storing all script files in the memory.
An arbitrary section of moving picture data, namely several VOBUs. may have no additional information although the moving picture data may have additional information overall. For such a section, a script file of which filename includes a start address of the section is still created, however, the script file has only null data.
In the example of
Therefore, when the L-th VOBU is encountered while reproducing the moving picture data, the DVD player reads contents written in the script file ‘30000.sc’ and it deletes previously-outputted contents of the script file ‘21000.sc’ in a viewing screen because the contents of the file ‘30000.sc’ are all null. As a result, while a section of moving picture data not supplied with additional information is being reproduced, previous additional information not related with current section disappears in a screen.
Instead of writing null data in a script file, a special code, e.g., ‘-’ is added to the filename of a script file to indicate that a linked section has no additional information. For example, in the example of
An embodiment of method and apparatus of reproducing a recording medium including script files linked with moving picture data as explained above is now described in detail.
The reproduction processing unit 12 may be composed of a digital signal processor (DSP) 12 a restoring the detected RF signals to digital data after converting the RF signals to binary signals, a decoder 12 b decoding compressed digital data restored by the digital signal processor 12 a, and the like. The controlling unit 13 may be composed of a file system 13 a searching for and reading a link data file or a script file stored in the memory 14 or recorded on the DVD 10, a microprocessor 13 b controlling reproduction of recorded data and script files in connection with the file system 13 a, and so on. A reproduction operation, conducted under the control of the controlling unit 13, of both moving picture data and related additional information in script files is performed as follows.
The procedures depicted in
Because there may be several program chains on the DVD 10, the controlling unit 13 waits until a program chain is chosen to be reproduced by a user. If a program chain is selected, the controlling unit 13 checks 1-bit ‘Script Flag’ allocated in the PGC Content field ‘PGC_CNT’ written in PGCI associated with the chosen program chain (S12). If the value of ‘Script Flag’ is 0, the controlling unit 13 knows that there is no additional information associated with the chosen program chain, and conducts a general DVD reproducing operation (S13).
If the values of ‘Script Flag’ is 1, the controlling unit 13 considers that there is at least one stored script file, linked with the selected program chain, in the SFZ of the DVD 10, and it searches the SFZ of the DVD 10 for a link data file having filename associated with the PGCI of the chosen program chain. If found, the controlling unit 13 determines that the chosen program chain has linked script files, otherwise, it determines that the chosen program chain does not.
If it is determined that there is additional information related with the program chain, the controlling unit 13 reads out the found data link file from the SFZ (S14) and stores it in the memory 14. Specially, if storage of the memory 14 is large enough to store many script files, the controlling unit 13 analyzes all link entries of the stored link data file, reads every script file identified by address or filename written in each link entry, and stores the read script files in the memory 14, before starting to reproduce moving picture data belonging to the chosen program chain (S15).
Afterwards, the controlling unit 13 conducts reproducing operation of the selected program chain (S16). If current reproducing mode is script display one or if script display mode is requested from a user during reproduction of moving picture data (S17), the controlling unit 13 receives an address of a VOBU being reproduced now from the reproduction processing unit 12 or knows the address from the already-stored VTSI in the memory 14 (S18), and it searches the link data file stored in the memory 14 for a link entry of which VOBU address member is equal to the received or known address (S19). If the link entry is not found, the controlling unit 13 searches for a link entry of which VOBU address member is closest to and smaller than the received or known address (S19). If a link entry is found from the former or the latter search operation, the controlling unit 13 identifies a recording address or a filename of a script file from the other member, delimited by ‘/’, of the found link entry, and searches the DVD 10 or the memory 14 for a script file identified by the address or filename through the file system 13 a (S20).
If an associated script file is found, its contents are transmitted to the reproduction processing unit 12 which decodes the received contents in accordance with compressing way of the contents, if compressed, and outputs them along with video and audio data decoded from reproduced moving picture data (S21). Owing to this dual decoding and outputting operation, a scene by moving picture data and scene descriptive text by a script file are displayed together in a single screen as shown in
In the meantime, if the found script file contains null data or has a special code such as ‘-’ indicative of no linked additional information in its filename as explained referring to
The procedures depicted in
The procedures of the embodiment of
If the found script file contains only null data or has a special code indicative of no linked additional information in its filename, the controlling unit 13 supplies the reproduction processing unit 12 with a signal indicative of no information to blank a present script window as the former embodiment.
As shown in
The above-explained method of linking additional information with each section of moving picture data and method and apparatus of reproducing a recording medium including the additional information as well as moving picture data make it possible for a viewer to obtain with ease additional and/or detailed information related to moving picture data reproduced from a recording medium such as a DVD.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
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