|Publication number||US7620299 B2|
|Application number||US 11/150,790|
|Publication date||Nov 17, 2009|
|Filing date||Jun 10, 2005|
|Priority date||Jun 27, 2001|
|Also published as||US6993250, US20030002860, US20050232604|
|Publication number||11150790, 150790, US 7620299 B2, US 7620299B2, US-B2-7620299, US7620299 B2, US7620299B2|
|Inventors||Hiroaki Ono, Tatsuya Ishitobi, Toshifumi Takeuchi|
|Original Assignee||Hitachi, Ltd.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (2), Classifications (18), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/126,325, filed Apr. 19, 2002, and entitled “Data Recording Device for Recording Data in Basic Recording Units,” which application claimed priority from Japan Patent Application No. 2001-193979, filed Jun. 27, 2001, and Japan Patent Application No. 2002-040914, filed Feb. 19, 2002.
The present invention relates to data recording technology for recording data to disk-type recording media such as an optical disk, and more particularly to data recording technology for recording moving images imaged by imaging means and sound from sound collecting means as data to an optical disk.
A CD player for playing back digital audio data from compact disks (CD) is an example of a disk playback device for playing back digital signals from a disk-type recording medium. Using an optical head, the CD player obtains the playback signal by reading the differences in reflectance of the pits and lands, formed on the disk in advance.
A disk playback device, using an optical head for playing back signals from a disk, such as this CD player, has better features, such as random access, than playback devices using tape-type recording media. Further, because the recording media and the optical heads are not in contact, there is no deterioration of the recording medium and reliability is very high.
However, such disk players have problems that make it impossible to read and reproduce the recorded data correctly (for example, the sound will drop out when reproduced with a CD player) because dust and defects on the disk or electrical noise and vibration reduce the signal quality of the optical heads reading the signal from the disk. This type of problem also occurs in disk recording devices. In disk recording devices, dust and defects on the disk or electrical noise and vibrations make it impossible to normally extend the recording signal from the optical heads to the disk, and a proper recording cannot be made on the disk.
Conventionally, these problems have been resolved with a “retry operation” wherein locations (tracks) to which the optical heads could not record are scanned again and the same recording signal is re-recorded.
With a retry operation, the recorded data can be recorded on a disk with as high fidelity as is possible because the head returns to the location directly preceding the location that could not be recorded and carries out correct recording once again. As a result, these means are effective for recording media which can be overwritten any number of times. However, for disk media on which data can be recorded one time only, such as CD-R (compact disk-recordable) and DVD-R (digital versatile disc-recordable), the retry method is not effective. A good recording cannot be made to a disk when correct recording has not been made to locations which have been written to once because there can be no correction re-recording. Patent application JP 2001-171890 has already been filed as related art.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a data recording device with high fidelity, which resolves the aforementioned problems in the prior art, and wherein problems such as image breakup or sound breakup are unlikely to occur.
When recording errors are detected at the time of recording with the present invention, recording is halted at once, even in the middle of recording a basic recording unit, and the recording data, including at least the information in the basic recording unit that was interrupted, are held in memory. After the recording error is eliminated or when re-recording is commanded, the head returns once more to the recording position directly preceding the place where the recording error was detected and attempts the recording operation from the location at which the recording of the basic recording unit was interrupted.
With the present invention, even when recording is halted for any reason while recording the data in a basic recording unit, the remaining data in that basic recording unit can be consecutively recorded in a retry from the position directly preceding the place where the recording was halted. Furthermore, even when the aforementioned recording stoppage time is prolonged and the memory capacity for temporarily holding recording data looks like it may be exceeded, data in the basic recording unit at the time when recording was halted remains held therein. Therefore, after recording starts, the remaining data in the recording unit can be consecutively recorded from the recorded portion of the disk. As a result, when these locations are played back there is no disruption in the image or sound.
Further, in the present invention, when normal recording is not possible, even when a re-recording operation has been attempted one or more times, correct recording at the position is abandoned and the head moves to the next recording position to continue recording. In this case, dummy data that cannot be corrected are recorded to the location, where the recording operation was not possible, instead of recording data with added ECC correction codes. In this case, playback of the location at which the dummy data was recorded causes disruption of the image and sound, in the case of audio or video recording, because error correction is not possible. Therefore, when correction is not possible, playback of data in the recording unit is skipped. Disruption of the image or sound can occur only with difficulty because of this skipping during playback.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are explained below using the drawings.
The imaging portion 1 comprises an imaging optical system 2, a charge coupled device (CCD) 3, and an analog-digital (AID) converter 4. The object image is imaged on CCD 3 by imaging optical system 2, an image signal is obtained from CCD 3, and this signal is digitized and output by A/D converter 4.
An image signal processing circuit 5 carries out processing to convert the image signal from the imaging portion 1 imaged data. Image signal processing circuit 5 also processes audio information signals output from a microphone 14, which is a representative means for converting sound to an electrical signal. During playback, image signal processing circuit 5 carries out processing to convert image data from a recording playback signal processing circuit 6, discussed below, to an image information signal for display output. Furthermore, image signal processing circuit 5 carries out processing to convert audio data from recording playback signal processing circuit 6, to an audio information signal for audio output.
In the case of a video camera, the image data and audio data, which are the recording data, are continuously processed by image signal processing circuit 5. The image and sound quality are determined by the processing capacity of image signal processing circuit 5. The transfer speed of the data sent from image signal processing circuit 5 to recording playback signal processing circuit 6 is determined by the processing capacity of the recording playback signal processing circuit.
Recording playback signal processing circuit 6 carries out processing such as encoding/decoding processing, modulation/demodulation processing, and ECC (error correction code) addition/error correction processing, in order to convert the image data, including audio data (processed by image signal processing circuit 5 and accumulated in memory 7), to recording data in a format for recording to a disk-type recording medium 9, and to convert the data played back from recording medium 9 to image data (including audio data).
The units in which data are recorded to disk are such that the basic recording unit is determined in the specifications, but in some cases, recording to disk-type recording medium 9 cannot be completed and is interrupted during basic unit recording. The transfer speed for recording to disk or for playback is determined by the processing capacity of recording playback signal processing circuit 6, the processing capacity of recording playback circuit 8, the rotation speed of the disk, and the like.
The image data (including audio data) from image signal processing circuit 5 is temporarily stored in memory 7. In the case where the transfer speed of the image data or audio data from image signal processing circuit 5 is faster than the speed of recording to disk-type recording medium 9, or in the case where recording to disk-type recording medium 9 is interrupted, as discussed above, memory 7 accumulates the recording data that are being recorded to disk-type recording medium 9, in the aforementioned basic recording units. As a result, recording to disk-type recording medium 9 must be accomplished before the quantity of recording data accumulated in the memory 7 exceeds the memory capacity.
Playback circuit 8 converts the digital data processed by recording playback signal processing circuit 6 to an analog signal and drives a/an LD 10 in optical head 10, represented by a semiconductor laser, on the basis of this analog signal. In addition, the detector in optical head 10 converts the received light to an analog signal and outputs this signal.
A servo circuit 11 carries out the control necessary when optical head 10 is recording data to disk-type recording medium 9; for example, focus and tracking control for controlling the actuator of the optical head 10, rotation control of the disk for controlling the spindle motor that rotates the disk-type recording medium, seek control for controlling the address location of the optical head 10, and the like. Because the servo controls are known items in the art, a detailed explanation is omitted.
The liquid crystal display (LCD) 15 functions as an image display means for displaying images from imaging portion 1.
A display device 13 can be connected to the aforementioned video camera and can show an image reproduced from media recording data recorded on disk-type recording medium 9.
During data playback, image data played back from disk-type recording medium 9 is received by the detector in optical head 10, and data converted to an analog signal by recording playback circuit 8 are temporarily accumulated in memory 7 as played back recording data. Thereafter, these data are converted to the original image data by recording playback signal processing circuit 6 and displayed on LCD 15 through image signal processing circuit 5.
System control circuit 12 is a control microcomputer for comprehensive control of the entire device and for control of each portion of the device discussed above.
Next, the process followed when the video camera shown in
In the case of media which can be recorded only once such as DVD-R and CD-R media, and when recording is interrupted once in the middle of a basic recording unit, it is necessary to write information from the middle of a unit at the time of re-recording, because it is not possible to overwrite a location which is already recorded. In the case of recording from the middle of a unit, a recording linking portion (shaded portion in the drawing) occurs and it is either impossible to record at the linking portion, or the recording clock is disrupted, but sufficient correction is possible because that location is within a very small range. Accordingly, even when with record-once media or an interruption in the middle of recording a basic recording unit, disruption in the image or a break in the sound can be prevented.
The same results as in the recording operation shown in
With this type of recording operation, disruption of the image and sound occurs with difficulty during playback, because dummy data are recorded to the portion which could not be recorded and the dummy data portion is skipped during playback.
System control circuit 12, controlling recording playback signal processing circuit 6, makes the determination of whether to skip and not play back the data in the aforementioned basic recording unit. In the decision method, system control circuit 12 determines that recording playback signal processing circuit 6 cannot make corrections, depending on the recording of the aforementioned dummy data, and causes recording playback signal processing circuit 6 to skip playback of the pertinent portions. Alternatively, information for determining whether to skip playback is embedded in the dummy data and the determination of whether to skip playback is made according to that information played back by recording playback signal processing circuit 6.
The embodiment discussed above has been explained using a video camera as an example, but the present invention is not limited to video cameras and may also be applied to sound recorders, portable information terminals (PDA), PCs, or the like.
In the present invention, as explained above, even when recording is stopped in the middle of a basic recording unit of data, the remaining data of the basic recording unit can then be recorded with a retry at a position that follows immediately after the position at which recording stopped. In addition, for example, the basic recording unit of data at the recording stoppage remains in memory even when the recording stoppage time is prolonged and the memory capacity for temporarily holding recording data appears to be exceeded. As a result, when recording is restarted, the remaining data of the basic recording unit are recorded to the disk at a position immediately following the already recorded portion, and, therefore, it is difficult for disruption of the image or sound to occur when these locations are played back.
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|U.S. Classification||386/263, 386/326|
|International Classification||G11B20/10, H04N5/85, G11B20/12, H04N5/94, H04N5/84, H04N5/91, H04N5/945, G11B27/00, H04N5/926|
|Cooperative Classification||G11B20/10527, H04N5/945, H04N5/84, H04N5/926, G11B2020/1062|
|European Classification||H04N5/926, G11B20/10C|
|Oct 26, 2010||CC||Certificate of correction|
|May 8, 2013||FPAY||Fee payment|
Year of fee payment: 4
|Jun 12, 2013||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., JAPAN
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Effective date: 20130607