Information searching system for image data

• US 5,107,343 A
• Filed: 10/19/1990
• Issued: 04/21/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawai, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Envall, Jr., Roy N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, THAI Q
• Application Number:
  US07/599,999
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 358/310, 358/335, 358/341, 358/342, 358/343, 358/906, 358/909, 358/311, 358/22, 358/183, 358/182, 360/55, 360/137, 360/14.1, 360/35.1, 369/34, 369/29, 369/30, 369/24, 369/32, 369/47, 369/13, 369/14
• US Class Current: 386/230
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/213 Read-only discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/255 CD-I, i.e. CD-interactive
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

An information searching system for image data arranged such that a character or symbol is utilized as a key word for a still picture or real moving picture in order to display a still picture or real moving picture associated with a piece of music on the basis of, for example, a musical title of the music.

Claims

1. An information searching system for image data comprising:

(a) a real moving picture record medium in which real moving picture signals and audio signals corresponding to said real moving picture signals are recorded;

(b) a real moving picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing said real moving picture signals and said audio signals from said real moving picture record medium;

(c) a still picture record medium in which are recorded list information, audio signals and still picture signals corresponding to one portion of said list information, and information corresponding to said real moving picture signals;

(d) a still picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing said audio signals and said still picture signals and at least a portion of said list information from said still picture record medium;

(e) a display apparatus for displaying an index mark adapted to be used to access audio signals and video image signals from said real moving picture record medium and said still picture record medium in response to a desired item of said reproduced list information; and

(f) a selective control apparatus for selecting said index mark on a display screen of said display apparatus, wherein signals corresponding to said desired item of reproduced list information is displayed.

2. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said selective control apparatus is comprised of a control apparatus for controlling said still picture reproducing apparatus such that said display apparatus reproduces said index mark from said still picture record medium together with said list information, and operating means for selecting said index mark displayed on said display apparatus.

3. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 2, wherein said operating means is a mouse and controls the position of a cursor on said display screen so as to select a desired index mark near said cursor.

4. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said still picture record medium is a CD-ROM.

5. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said real moving picture record medium is an optical digital disc.

6. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 5, wherein said optical digital disc is a rewritable optical disc.

7. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said still picture information is a video image of the jacket design of a music record disc.

8. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said real moving picture information is a video image associated with an information stored in said still picture record medium.

9. An information searching system for image data as claimed in claim 1, wherein said real moving picture and said still picture are displayed within a window.

10. An information searching system for image data comprising:

(a) a real moving picture record medium in which real moving picture signals and audio signals corresponding to said real moving picture signals are recorded;

(b) a real moving picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing said real moving picture signals and said audio signals from said real moving picture record medium;

(c) a still picture record medium in which list information, audio signals corresponding to one portion of said list information and still picture signals are recorded;

(d) a still picture reproducing apparatus for reproducing said audio signals and said still picture signals from said still picture record medium;

(e) a display apparatus for displaying an index mark adapted to be used to access audio signals and video image signals from said real moving picture record medium and said still picture record medium in response to a desired item of said list information; and

(f) a control apparatus for searching said audio signals and said moving and still picture signals on the basis of said list information, wherein said control apparatus includes means for obtaining an input search item, means for looking up a table on the basis of said search item, means for converting said list information into a display signal on the basis of said table, means for displaying list information in response to said display signal, means for selecting an item from said displayed list information, means for detecting whether or not said displayed list information is selected, and means for searching said real moving picture signals, said still picture signals and said audio signals on the basis of the detecting done by said detecting means.