Recording medium, apparatus and method for recording data on the recording medium, apparatus and method for reproducing data from the recording medium

• US 5,963,704 A
• Filed: 07/17/1998
• Issued: 10/05/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshia
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mimura, Hideki, Kikuchi, Shinichi, Kurano, Tomoaki, Taira, Kazuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HUY THANH
• Application Number:
  US09/116,831
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 386/95, 386/96, 386/104, 386/105, 386/111, 386/112, 386/125, 386/126, 386/121, 386/83, 386/98, 386/46, 369/32, 348/468
• US Class Current: 386/243
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0037 with discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/007 Arrangement of the information on the record carrier, e.g. form of tracks , actual track shape, e.g. wobbled, or cross-section, e.g. v-shaped; Sequential information structures, e.g. sectoring or header formats within a track
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/013 for discrete information, i.e. where each information unit is stored in a distinct discrete location , e.g. digital information formats within a data block or sector
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4856 for language selection, e.g. for the menu or subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 : on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8216 : using time division multiplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 : the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A method to form a menu of video data as the background image of the menu and sub-picture data made of an selection item of the menu, alters highlight information for the selection item of the sub-picture data, thereby easily forming various menu. Specifically, a button area for surrounding the selection item and the action item represented by the sub-picture data is provided, and the color and contract of the pattern pixel, background pixel and highlighted pixel as pixel data in the button area are variously altered.

Claims

1. An encoding method for encoding data to be recorded in an information recording medium, said recording medium having a data recording area for recording a video manager and at least one video title set, said video manager having data for controlling said video title set and said video title set containing video data, audio data, and sub-picture data, said encoding method comprising:

receiving said video data, said audio data, and said sub-picture data;

encoding said video data, said audio data, and said sub-picture data;

dividing contents of said encoded video, audio, and sub-picture data into corresponding one or more video packs, one or more audio packs, and one or more sub-picture packs;

arranging said video packs, audio packs, and sub-picture packs and appending a navigation pack to define a video object unit, wherein said navigation pack includes playback control data and is disposed at a beginning position within said video object unit;

arranging a plurality of said video object units to define each of a plurality of video object sets;

arranging a plurality of said video object sets to define said video title set,

wherein at least one of said video manager and said video title set contains menu information, said menu information including a menu background image, at least one menu selection item image for indicating a selection of a menu item, and at least one menu status button for indicating a status of a selection,

wherein said playback control data includes highlight information for highlighting said menu status button,

wherein said highlight information contains highlight general information describing attributes of said highlight information including a highlight start time during a presentation period of said video object unit, number of numerical selection button information, forcedly selected button number information at said highlight start time, and forcedly activated button number information at an end time of a button selection, said highlight information also containing a menu status button color information table describing color attributes of said menu status button and a menu status button information table having menu status button information, and

wherein said menu status button information includes,

status button position information for indicating a position corresponding to said menu status button,

adjacent status button information for describing a direction of a next selection for said menu status button, and

status button command for describing a status command to be executed when said menu status button is activated to reproduce a title which is designated according to said status button command.