CD and DVD players
First Claim
1. The method of reproducing selected programs recorded on one or more compact disk volumes comprising, in combination, the steps of:
- mounting a given one of said disk volumes on a playback transport, employing said playback transport to extract sample content data from each of a plurality of different programs recorded on said given one of said disk volumes, transferring said sample content data to a high speed random access memory, accepting a content navigation request from a user, selectively reproducing said sample content data stored in said random access memory in a form perceptible to said user in response to said navigation request, accepting a program selection request from said user during or immediately after the reproduction of sample content data extracted from a particular one of said programs, and reproducing said particular one of said different programs in response to said selection request.
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Abstract
A compact disk player employing a high speed digital memory for storing a sample extracted from each program (track) on the disk. A scanning control plays the samples in sequence to a user, who can interrupt the sample playback to select and play the program corresponding to the sample. The digital memory may further store metadata from an external source that describes each program and the metadata may be used to define the location of the samples, and to describe the programs in a program guide which assists the user in selecting desired programs. An archiving mechanism enables the user to build a catalog of all of the programs in the user'"'"'s collection.
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15 Claims
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1. The method of reproducing selected programs recorded on one or more compact disk volumes comprising, in combination, the steps of:
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mounting a given one of said disk volumes on a playback transport, employing said playback transport to extract sample content data from each of a plurality of different programs recorded on said given one of said disk volumes, transferring said sample content data to a high speed random access memory, accepting a content navigation request from a user, selectively reproducing said sample content data stored in said random access memory in a form perceptible to said user in response to said navigation request, accepting a program selection request from said user during or immediately after the reproduction of sample content data extracted from a particular one of said programs, and reproducing said particular one of said different programs in response to said selection request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. The method of reproducing selected programs recorded on a plurality of different compact disk volumes comprising, in combination, the steps of:
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mounting each of said disk volumes on a playback transport, employing said playback transport to extract sample content data from each of a plurality of different programs recorded on the mounted one of said disk volumes, transferring said sample content data from each of said disk volumes to a high speed random access memory, selectively reproducing said sample content data stored in said random access memory in a form perceptible to a user in response to a navigation request from said user, and reproducing a particular one of said different programs in response to a selection request from said user issued during or immediately after the reproduction of sample content data extracted from said particular one of said programs. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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Specification