Recording and reproducing apparatus, reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing method, reproducing method, program and recording medium

• US 20050234858A1
• Filed: 03/25/2005
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation), Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Torii, Yasuyuki, Takeguchi, Nobuyasu, Mercer, Ian Cameron, Kase, Hiroshi, Walker, Brian James, La Chapelle, Kevin Leigh
• Application Number:
  US11/090,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20050234858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

[Object] When additional recording is performed by a recording apparatus and a program of a different method of management information construction to a recording medium having recorded thereon management information data such as a content parameter, a menu, a play list and a menu display image together with content data such as an audio, a static image and a video, consistency of the management information data is lost.

[Solution] It is possible to record in a file header portion 31 of a management information file group 2 an editor identifier 33 for identifying an apparatus and a program having edited that file, trace update history of the file with a file management device 14 and update information with a management information file creation device 15 by reflecting an intention of management information already recorded so as to keep the consistency of the management information.

Claims

1. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a recording medium including one or more content data files of storing predetermined data and one or more management information files of content information, a reproducing method and the like of the one or more content data files;

file reading means of reading the content data file and the management information file from the recording medium;

file recording means of recording the content data file and the management information file on the recording medium;

file management means of temporarily managing the contents of a read file; and

management information file creation means of creating the management information file to be recorded on the recording medium by newly creating it or correcting its contents, characterized in that;

the content data file or the management information file are capable of correction recording such as additional recording, deletion or change of the contents, and the management information file has a specific area secured for the sake of recording an editor identifier for identifying a device, a system or an application which created that file.

2. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that types of the content data files recorded on the recording medium are multimedia contents such as audios, static images, videos and textual information.

3. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the types of the management information files recorded on the recording medium are management information on a content information file of putting together parameters of the content data files, a menu information file of describing menu display contents as a user interface for the sake of setting and selecting an operation procedure of content reproduction, a play list information file of defining a procedure of consecutively reproducing the content data files in specific order, a meta data information file of putting together meta data of the content data files, a menu display image file of holding together background images and thumbnail images of the play lists used for menu display and the like.

4. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that, in the case of additionally recording or deleting the content data file anew, the information file is not newly re-created, but the contents of one or more of the original information files are inherited and only data of a necessary area in that file is added, deleted or rewritten.

5. A reproducing apparatus comprising:

a recording medium including one or more content data files of storing predetermined data and one or more management information files of content information, a reproducing method and the like of the one or more content data files;

file reading means of reading the content data file and the management information file from the recording medium;

file management means of temporarily managing the contents of a read file; and

menu display means of displaying a menu on reproducing the content data file read from the recording medium, characterized in that;

if the file management means determines that there is a mismatch in a logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and a file system of the recording medium, a most doubtful file is searched for by referring to update time information of each file and an editor identifier listed in the management information file, and the menu display means displays and informs the user of mismatching contents, a mismatching file or the editor identifier having caused the mismatch.

6. A recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a recording medium including one or more content data files of storing predetermined data and one or more management information files of content information, a reproducing method and the like of the one or more content data files;

file reading means of reading the content data file and the management information file from the recording medium;

file recording means of recording the content data file and the management information file on the recording medium;

file management means of temporarily managing the contents of a read file; and

management information file creation means of creating the management information file to be recorded on the recording medium by newly creating it or correcting its contents, characterized in that;

if the file management means determines that there is a mismatch in a logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and a file system of the recording medium, all the management information files are newly re-created.

7. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that, if the file management means determines that there is a mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and the file system of the recording medium, a most doubtful file is searched for by referring to update time information of each file and an editor identifier listed in the management information file, and only incorrect contents of the files are corrected by the management information file creation means and are rerecorded on the recording medium by the file recording means so as to recover consistency of all the files.

8. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 7, comprising:

a by-editor identifier error information file organized by editor identifiers and having recorded therein construction algorithms and classification methods of the menu and play list which are characteristics on creating the management information file with various apparatuses classified by each of the editor identifiers and also error information possibly generated on additional recording in the management information file created by an apparatus of insufficient compatibility; and

internal storage means of holding the by-editor identifier error information file, characterized in that;

if the file management means determines that there is a mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and a file system of the recording medium, the most doubtful file is searched for by referring to update time information of each file and an editor identifier listed in the management information file, and incorrect contents of the files are corrected to be more correct by the management information file creation means by referring to the by-editor identifier error information file and are rerecorded on the recording medium by the file recording means so as to recover consistency of all the files.

9. The recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 8 comprising:

content data file encoding means of encoding content data captured from the outside to convert it to the content data file;

or the internal storage means of holding the content data file already encoded, characterized in that;

when the content data file is newly recorded on the recording medium if the file management means determines, as a result of a check, that there is the mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file already held by the recording medium, the management information file and the file system of the recording medium, incorrect contents of the files are corrected to be more correct and then the new content data file is added and the management information file is simultaneously updated in conjunction therewith so as to recover consistency of all the files.

10. A recording medium processable by a computer, characterized in that it includes one or more content data files of storing data such as audios, static images, videos and textual information, and has one or more management information files such as a content information file of putting together parameters of the predetermined one or more content data files, a menu information file of describing menu display contents as a user interface for the sake of setting and selecting an operation procedure of content reproduction, a play list information file of defining a procedure of consecutively reproducing the content data files in specific order, a meta data information file of putting together meta data of the content data files and a menu display image file of holding together background images and thumbnail images of the play lists used for menu display, and the management information file has a specific area secured for the sake of recording an editor identifier for identifying a device, a system or an application which created that file.

11. A recording and reproducing method comprising:

a file reading step of reading a content data file and a management information file from a recording medium;

a file recording step of recording the content data file and the management information file on the recording medium;

a file management step of temporarily managing the contents of a read file; and

a management information file creation step of creating the management information file to be recorded on the recording medium by newly creating it or correcting its contents, characterized in that;

the management information file creation step creates for the recording medium one or more management information files such as a content information file of putting together parameters of the content data files of storing data such as audios, videos, animations and textual information, a menu information file of describing menu display contents as a user interface for the sake of setting and selecting an operation procedure of content reproduction, a play list information file of defining a procedure of consecutively reproducing the content data files in specific order, a meta data information file of putting together meta data of the content data files and a menu display image file of holding together background images and thumbnail images of the play lists used for menu display, and the created management information file has a specific area secured for the sake of recording an editor identifier for identifying a device, a system or an application which created that file.

12. The recording and reproducing method according to claim 11, comprising:

a by-editor identifier error information file organized by editor identifiers and having recorded therein construction algorithms and classification methods of the menu and play list which are characteristics on creating the management information file with various apparatuses classified by each of the editor identifiers and also error information possibly generated on additional recording in the management information file created by an apparatus of insufficient compatibility; and

internal storage step of holding the by-editor identifier error information file, characterized in that;

if the file management step step determines that there is a mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and a file system of the recording medium, the most doubtful file is searched for by referring to update time information of each file and an editor identifier listed in the management information file, and incorrect contents of the files are corrected to be more correct by the management information file creation step by referring to the by-editor identifier error information file and are rerecorded on the recording medium by the file recording step so as to recover consistency of all the files.

14. A program of the recording and reproducing method according to claim 11, comprising:

the file reading step of reading the content data file and the management information file from the recording medium;

the file recording step of recording the content data file and the management information file on the recording medium;

the file management step of temporarily managing the contents of the read file; and

the management information file creation step of creating the management information file to be recorded on the recording medium by newly creating it or correcting its contents, characterized by causing a computer to execute so that;

the management information file creation step creates for the recording medium one or more management information files such as a content information file of putting together parameters of the content data files of storing the data such as the audios, static images, videos and textual information, the menu information file of describing the menu display contents as the user interface for the sake of setting and selecting the operation procedure of the content reproduction, the play list information file of defining the procedure of consecutively reproducing the content data files in specific order, the meta data information file of putting together the meta data of the content data files and the menu display image file of holding together the background images and thumbnail images of the play lists used for the menu display, and the created management information file has the specific area secured for the sake of recording the editor identifier for identifying the device, system or application which created that file.

15. A program of the recording and reproducing method according to claim 12, comprising:

the by-editor identifier error information file organized by the editor identifiers and having recorded therein the construction algorithms and classification methods of the menu and play list which are characteristics on creating the management information file with various apparatuses classified by each of the editor identifiers and also the error information possibly generated on additional recording in the management information file created by the apparatus of insufficient compatibility; and

the internal storage step of holding the by-editor identifier error information file, characterized by causing a computer to execute so that;

if the file management step step determines that there is a mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and the file system of the recording medium, the most doubtful file is searched for by referring to the update time information of each file and the editor identifier listed in the management information file, and incorrect contents of the files are corrected to be more correct by the management information file creation step by referring to the by-editor identifier error information file and are rerecorded on the recording medium by the file recording step so as to recover the consistency of all the files.

13. A reproducing method comprising:

a file reading step of reading a content data file and a management information file from a recording medium;

a file management step of temporarily managing the contents of a read file; and

a menu display step of displaying a menu on reproducing the content data file read from the recording medium, characterized in that;

if the file management step determines that there is a mismatch in a logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and a file system of the recording medium, a most doubtful file is searched for by referring to update time information of each file and an editor identifier listed in the management information file, and the menu display step displays and informs the user of mismatching contents, a mismatching file or the editor identifier having caused a mismatch.

16. A program of the reproducing method according to claim 13, comprising:

the file reading step of reading the content data file and the management information file from the recording medium;

the file management step of temporarily managing the contents of the read file; and

the menu display step of displaying the menu on reproducing the content data file read from the recording medium, characterized by causing a computer to execute so that;

if the file management step determines that there is a mismatch in the logical relationship among the content data file held by the recording medium, the management information file and the file system of the recording medium, the most doubtful file is searched for by referring to the update time information of each file and the editor identifier listed in the management information file, and the menu display step displays and informs the user of the mismatching contents, the mismatching file or the editor identifier having caused the mismatch.