Document Recording Medium, Recording Apparatus, Recording Method, Data Output Apparatus, Data Output Method and Data Delivery/Distribution System

• US 20080259745A1
• Filed: 08/25/2005
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takai, Motoyuki, Inoue, Makoto, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Miyajima, Yasushi, Sakai, Yuichi, Sasaki, Toru, Asukai, Masamichi, Yamashita, Kosei
• Application Number:
  US11/662,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20080259745A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/30.04
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/218 Write-once discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs

Abstract

It is made possible to appreciate a material such as a single musical composition, a single video, and the like in various states. There is provided an optical head 31 for reading out contents data such as a musical composition, a video, and the like, metadata for arranging the contents data, and information for specifying the contents data from a CD-R 11 to which they are recorded. There is provided a circuit 35 for outputting the contents data read out by the optical head and data arranged by the metadata together.

Claims

1. A recording medium, characterized in that identification data for specifying contents data and metadata for modifying the contents data are recorded in correspondence to each other.

2. A recording medium according to claim 1, characterized in that the contents data specified by the identification data are also recorded.

3. A recording medium according to claim 2, characterized in that the identification data and the metadata are recorded to a recording region different from that of the contents data.

4. A recording medium according to claim 1, characterized in that the contents data are data regarding at least one of a video, a music, a photograph, and a game.

5. A recording medium according to claim 1, characterized in that a plurality of kinds of the metadata are recorded.

6. A recording medium according to claim 1, characterized in that the recording medium is a medium of a group consisting of an optical disc, a hard disc, and a semiconductor memory.

7. A data output apparatus comprising:

read-out means for reading out predetermined contents data from a recording medium or through a network;

fetch means for specifying the contents data and fetching metadata related to the contents data for modifying the contents data from the recording medium or other recording medium or through the network; and

output means for outputting together the contents data read out by the read-out means and the metadata fetched by the fetch means.

8. A data output method comprising:

reading out predetermined contents data;

fetching metadata for modifying the contents data; and

outputting the contents data read out and the metadata fetched together.

9. A data delivery/distribution system, wherein information for specifying predetermined contents data and metadata for modifying the contents data are delivered or distributed together.

10. A data delivery/distribution system according to claim 9, characterized in that the metadata is data of a difference.

11. A data delivery/distribution system according to claim 9, characterized in that the metadata is data for providing at least one modification of a group consisting of a modification of gradation, a modification of a color tone, a modification of a time axis, a modification of a frequency, a modification of a volume, a modification of a tempo, and a shift of a pitch.

12. A data delivery/distribution system according to claim 9, wherein the metadata is delivered or distributed through broadcasting, the Internet, a mobile phone, or a recording medium.

13. A recording apparatus, characterized in that the recording apparatus records identification data for specifying contents data and metadata for modifying the contents data in correspondence to each other.

14. A recording method, characterized in that the recording method records identification data for specifying contents data and metadata for modifying the contents data in correspondence to each other.