Information recording/reproducing apparatus and method

• US 5,819,103 A
• Filed: 09/21/1994
• Issued: 10/06/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Toshimitsu, Numazaki, Shunichi, Endoh, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Meng-Ai T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN
• Application Number:
  US08/308,549
• Time in Patent Office: 1,476 Days
• Field of Search: 395/154, 395/162, 395/155, 395/600, 395/133, 395/135, 395/173, 395/174, 395/501, 395/520, 395/335, 395/850, 395/872, 395/821, 395/309, 369/32, 369/13, 369/58, 360/9.1, 360/35.1, 360/10.3
• US Class Current: 710/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

An information recording/reproducing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a link information generating unit, a link information storage unit, and a second processing unit. The first processing unit processes information constituted by a plurality of information units and subjected to a recording/reproducing operation. The link information generating unit generates link information representing the relationship between arbitrary information units of the information units constituting the information. The link information storage unit stores the link information generated by the link information generating unit. The second processing unit performs predetermined processing with respect to the link information when an information unit corresponding to the link information stored in the link information storage unit is processed by the first processing unit.

Claims

1. An information recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:

means for displaying main information including a specific object;

means for displaying linked information related to the main information;

means for controlling at least one of a display timing of the linked information and a display speed of the main information in accordance with link information representing a relationship between the main information and the linked information and display speed information of the main information;

means for changing display for, when display for indicating an object to which linked information is related with regard to the specific object included in the main object and display of the linked information related to the object are performed, changing the display for indicating the object in accordance with display position information of the object; and

means operated by a user to directly input position information for only a partial interval and adapted to detect, using display position information of the object in the partial interval, display positions of the object throughout an interval other than the partial interval, for which the user inputs the position information.

2. An information recording/reproducing method comprising:

a step of displaying main information including a specific object;

a step of displaying linked information related to the main information;

a step of controlling at least one of a display timing of the linked information and a display speed of the main information in accordance with link information representing a relationship between the main information and the linked information and display speed information of the main information;

a step of changing display for, when display for indicating an object to which linked information is related with regard to the specific object included in the main object and display of the linked information related to the object are performed, changing the display for indicating the object in accordance with display position information of the object; and

a step of inputting position information for only a partial interval and using display position information of the object in the partial interval to detect display positions of the object throughout an interval other than the partial interval, for which the position information is inputted.