Information reproduction apparatus and information reproduction method

• US 20070222798A1
• Filed: 03/21/2007
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kuno, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US11/726,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20070222798A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/634
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/125 wherein one of the images is motion video
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42653 for processing graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44004 involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen

Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproduction method that includes executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data, and performing control to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding a part superimposed on the video data or the picture data in the graphics data is not used for the blend processing but data in the specific region is used for the blend processing when the video data and the picture data vary with time and the graphics data does not vary with time.

Claims

1. An information reproduction apparatus comprising:

a graphics processing unit to execute graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data to generate a graphics screen image; and

a partial blend control section to control the graphics processing unit to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding the graphics data is not used for the blend processing but data in the specific region is used for the blend processing, when the graphics data varies with time and occupies only a part of the entire plane.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the graphics data is divided into a plurality of sets of data and an arrangement of the plurality of sets of data satisfies certain conditions, the partial blend control section executes grouping processing of surrounding the plurality of sets of data with one frame to form the specific region.

3. An information reproduction apparatus comprising:

a graphics processing unit to execute graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data to generate a graphics screen image; and

a differential blend control section to control the graphics processing unit to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding a part superimposed on the video data or the picture data in the graphics data is not used for the blend processing but data in the specific region is used for the blend processing when the video data and the picture data vary with time and the graphics data does not vary with time.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein, when the graphics data in the superimposed part is divided into a plurality of sets of data and an arrangement of the plurality of sets of data satisfies certain conditions, the differential blend control section executes grouping processing of surrounding the plurality of sets of data with one frame to form the specific region.

5. An information reproduction apparatus comprising:

a graphics processing unit to execute graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data to generate a graphics screen image; and

a blend mode control section to control the graphics processing unit to execute the blend processing in a data processing mode in which the video data is read, the picture data is read, the graphics data is read and the read individual sets of data are collectively written in a buffer.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the data processing mode is realized by processing units which are coupled with each other on multiple stages to respectively read the video data, the picture data and the graphics data.

7. An information reproduction apparatus comprising:

a graphics processing unit to execute graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data to generate a graphics screen image; and

a blend mode control section to determine one of data processing modes to be used in accordance with an area in which the individual sets of data are superimposed and to control the graphics processing unit to execute the blend processing in the determined mode, the data processing modes being a first data processing mode in which the video data is read, the picture data is read, the graphics data is read and the read individual sets of data are collectively written in a buffer and a second data processing mode in which data obtained by respectively reading and combining the video data and the picture data is written in the buffer and data obtained by respectively reading and combining the combined data and the graphics data is written in the buffer.

8. An information reproduction method comprising:

executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data; and

performing control to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding the graphics data is not used for the blend processing but data in the specific region is used for the blend processing, when the graphics data varies with time and occupies only a part of the entire plane.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the performing control includes executing grouping processing of surrounding a plurality of sets of data with one frame to form the specific region when the graphics data is divided into the plurality of sets of data and an arrangement of the plurality of sets of data satisfies certain conditions.

10. An information reproduction method comprising:

executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data; and

performing control to assure that data in a region except a specific region surrounding a part superimposed on the video data or the picture data in the graphics data is not used for the blend processing but data in the specific region is used for the blend processing when the video data and the picture data vary with time and the graphics data does not vary with time.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the performing control includes executing grouping processing of surrounding a plurality of sets of data with one frame to form the specific region when the graphics data in the superimposed part is divided into the plurality of sets of data and an arrangement of the plurality of sets of data satisfies certain conditions.

12. An information reproduction method comprising:

executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data; and

performing control to execute the blend processing in a data processing mode in which the video data is read, the picture data is read, the graphics data is read and the read individual sets of data are collectively written in a buffer.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the data processing mode is realized by using processing units which are coupled with each other on multiple stages to respectively read the video data, the picture data and the graphics data.

14. An information reproduction method comprising:

executing graphics processing including blend processing of superimposing respective planes of at least video data, picture data and graphics data; and

determining one of data processing modes to be used in accordance with an area in which the individual sets of data are superimposed and performing control to execute the blend processing in the determined mode, the data processing modes being a first data processing mode in which the video data is read, the picture data is read, the graphics data is read and the read individual sets of data are collectively written in a buffer and a second data processing mode in which data obtained by respectively reading and combining the video data and the picture data is written in the buffer and data obtained by respectively reading and the combined data and the graphics data is written in the buffer.