Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing data on and from a DVD-Audio disk

• US 20020061188A1
• Filed: 07/20/2001
• Published: 05/23/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Heo, Jung-Kwon
• Granted Patent: US 6,665,241 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/96
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/122 involving the detection of an identification or authentication mark record carriers indicating unauthorised or prior use G11B23/28
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/125 involving the detection of carrier data format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00007 Time or data compression or expansion audio compression based on psychoacoustics G10L19/00; data processing for reproducing audio data at different playback speeds G10L21/04; video compression H04N19/00; data compression per se H03M7/30
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10546 specifically adapted for audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10592 specifically adapted for recording or reproducing multichannel signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/211 Discs having both read-only and rewritable or recordable areas containing application data; Partial ROM media
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals

Abstract

A DVD-Audio which includes a data zone for storing data to be reproduced and an information zone for storing information on the data to be reproduced. The information zone includes directories of a video title set (VIDEO_TS) and an audio title set (AUDIO_TS). The AUDIO_TS directory includes information on an audio manager (AMG) having information on audio titles. The data zone includes the audio titles each having an audio title set information (ATSI) followed by a plurality of contiguous audio objects (AOBs). The ATSI includes a plurality of audio stream attributes each having an audio coding mode, first to third quantization bit numbers, first to third sampling frequencies and decoding algorithm information relating to the number of audio channels. Each of the AOBs includes a plurality of audio packs recorded with audio data corresponding to the decoding algorithm stored in the audio stream attribute. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus records the data and the information on the data or the DVD-Audio and/or reproduces the data and the information on the data therefrom.

Claims

1. An apparatus for recording and reproducing a data from/to a DVD-Audio disk, comprising:

a recording portion comprising an encoder to encode data, the data comprising an audio manager (AMG) having information on an audio title (ATS) and the ATS has audio title set information (ATSI) followed by contiguous audio objects (AOBs), the ATSI includes audio stream attributes, each audio stream attribute indicating

an audio coding mode,

a first, second, or third quantization bit number corresponding to the data to be recorded,

a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth sampling frequency corresponding to the data to be recorded, and

decoding algorithm information relating to a number of audio channels of the data to be recorded, and

each of the AOBs includes a plurality of audio packs recorded with audio data corresponding to the decoding algorithm stored in the audio stream attribute, and

an optical pickup to record the encoded audio data on the DVD-Audio disk. a reproducing portion comprising

a data receiver to receive the audio data retrieved from the DVD-Audio disk,

a controller to generate an audio control signal including the audio coding mode, the sampling frequency of the six potential sampling frequencies, the number of audio channels, and the detected one of the first through third quantization bit numbers based upon information on the audio data,

an audio decoder to decode the audio data, to multi-channel mix, to sampling-frequency convert, to requantize the decoded audio signal according to the audio control signal, and to generate an output decoded audio data,

an audio output circuit to convert the output decoded audio data into an analog audio signal; and

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the audio coding mode is linear pulse code modulated (PCM) audio,

the first through third quantization bit numbers are respectively 16 bits, 20 bits and 24 bits, and

the first through sixth sampling frequencies are respectively 48 KHz, 96 KHz, 192 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz, and 176.4 KHz.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the audio coding mode is a compression coding system,

the first through third quantization bit numbers of the audio data before compression are respectively 16 bits, 20 bits and 24 bits, and

the first through sixth potential sampling frequencies are respectively 48 KHz, 96 KHz, 192 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz, and 176.4 KHz.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said audio decoder further comprises audio decoding circuits to decode the audio data, to multi-channel mix, to sampling-frequency convert, and to requantize the decoded audio signal according to the audio control signal, wherein each audio decoding circuit corresponds to an audio coding mode.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said audio decoder further comprises a stream selector to select one of the audio streams which comprise the audio data according to the audio coding mode control signal to deliver the selected audio stream to the corresponding one of the audio decoding circuits, and

the audio decoding circuits comprise

a linear pulse code modulated (PCM) decoding circuit to decode the selected audio stream when the selected audio stream is a linear PCM audio stream, and to sampling frequency convert, to multichannel downmix, and to requantize the decoded linear PCM audio stream according to the audio control signal, and

a coding data decoding circuit to decode the selected audio stream when the selected audio stream is a compression coded audio stream by a corresponding extension algorithm, and to sampling frequency convert, to multichannel downmix, and to requantize the decoded compression coded audio stream according to the audio control signal.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said data receiver further corrects errors in the read data;

said audio decoder comprises;

a linear PCM decoder,

a Dolby AC-3 decoder,

a coding data decoder, and

an MPEG decoder; and

said controller drives the corresponding one of the linear PCM decoder, Dolby AC-3 decoder, coding data decoder, and MPEG decoder, to decode the audio data based upon the audio coding mode of the corrected audio data.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a digital processor to filter the decoded audio data

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first through sixth sampling frequencies comprise at least two sampling frequencies above 100 Khz.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein two of the first through sixth sampling frequencies comprise 192 KHz and 176.4 KHz.

10. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ATSI further comprises value fields, and the first through six sampling frequencies are indicated by corresponding states of two of the value fields, and

said controller further determines which of the first through six sampling frequencies is the sampling frequency from the states of the two value fields.

11. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein one of the two value fields indicates whether the sampling frequency is above 100 Khz.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein one of the two value fields indicates whether the sampling frequency is one of 176.4 Khz and 192 Khz.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein, one of the two value fields indicates whether the sampling frequency is one of 176.4 Khz and 192 Khz,

the other of the two value fields has a state that indicates the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz, and

said controller further detects the one value field to determine whether the sampling frequency is one of 176.4 Khz and 192 Khz, and the state of the other value field to determine whether the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein,

a first of the two value fields has a first or a second state, the first state indicates the sampling frequency is one of 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz and 176.4 KHz, and the second state indicates the sampling frequency is one of 48 KHz, 96 KHz, and 192 KHz.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein

a second of the two value fields has three states, and

said controller further detects

the first or second state of the first value field to determine whether the sampling frequency is one of one of 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz and 176.4 KHz, or one of 48 KHz, 96 KHz, and 192 KHz, and

one of the three states of the second value field to determine whether the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz.

17. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein two of the first through sixth sampling frequencies detected by said controller/indicated by said encoder comprise 192 KHz and 176.4 KHz.

18. The apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein

the ATSI further comprises value fields, and the first through six sampling frequencies is indicated by corresponding states of two of the value fields, and

said controller determines/said encoder indicates which of the six sampling frequencies is the sampling frequency from the corresponding states of the two value fields.

19. The apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein one of the two value fields indicates whether the sampling frequency is above 100 Khz.

20. The apparatus as claimed in claim 18, wherein one of the two value fields indicates whether the sampling frequency is one of 176.4 Khz and 192 Khz.

21. The apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein,

another of the two value fields a state, the state indicates the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz, and

said controller further detects/said encoder further indicates the one value field to determine whether the sampling frequency is one of 176.4 Khz and 192 Khz, and the state of the other value field to determine/indicate whether the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz.

22. The apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein,

a first of the two value fields has a first or a second state, the first state indicates the sampling frequency is one of 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz and 176.4 KHz, and the second state indicates the sampling frequency is one of 48 KHz, 96 KHz, and 192 KHz.

23. The apparatus as claimed in claim 22, wherein

a second of the value fields has three states, and

said controller detects and said encoder indicates

the first or second state of the first value field to determine/indicate whether the sampling frequency is one of one of 44.1 KHz, 88.2 KHz and 176.4 KHz, or one of 48 KHz, 96 KHz, and 192 KHz, and

one of the three states of the second value field to determine/indicate whether the sampling frequency is 176.4 Khz or 192 Khz.

16. An apparatus for reproducing/recording data from/to a DVD-Audio, comprising:

an encoder to encode audio data, the audio data having an audio manager (AMG) having information on an audio title (ATS) and the ATS has audio title set information (ATSI) followed by contiguous audio objects (AOBs) having audio data and including the ATSI, the ATSI indicating one of the six sampling frequencies corresponding to the data to be recorded;

an optical pickup to record the data on the DVD-Audio disk;

a data receiver to receive the audio data retrieved from the DVD-Audio disk;

a controller to generate an audio control signal and to detect and differentiate a sampling frequency from six sampling frequencies using the ATSI of the received audio data; and

an audio decoder to decode the audio data, to sampling-frequency convert the decoded audio signal according to the audio control signal, and to generate an output decoded audio data.