Recording/reproducing device with memory controller which creates sector data storing area and additive data storing area

• US 6,343,054 B1
• Filed: 03/01/1996
• Issued: 01/29/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Maeda, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Huber, Paul W.
• Application Number:
  US08/609,234
• Time in Patent Office: 2,160 Days
• Field of Search: 369/47, 369/48, 369/49, 369/54, 369/58, 369/50, 369/60, 369/124, 369/32, 369/30, 369/47.28, 369/47.29, 369/47.3, 369/47.31, 369/47.32, 369/47.34, 369/53.31, 369/53.34, 369/53.35, 369/53.36, 369/53.44, 369/124.07, 369/124.08, 369/124.14, 369/47.33
• US Class Current: 369/47.32
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 11/10595 Control of operating function
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00007 Time or data compression or expansion audio compression based on psychoacoustics G10L19/00; data processing for reproducing audio data at different playback speeds G10L21/04; video compression H04N19/00; data compression per se H03M7/30
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10592 specifically adapted for recording or reproducing multichannel signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2529 Mini-discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/65 wherein solid state memory is used for storing indexing information or metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

In a memory control device for controlling the write-in/read-out operation for a memory of a recording/reproducing apparatus, a sector data storing area and an additive area are set in each sector-based data storing area in the memory. A prescribed data is stored in the additive area associated with the sector-based data stored in the sector data storing area. The access addresses for the additive area are generated on the basis of the sector count value when the sector data write-in or read-out is carried out in the memory. The access addresses are calculated by the memory control device.

Claims

1. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the type including:

a system controller;

a memory means for storing, in a sector-based data storing area, data to be recorded on a recording medium and/or data which is read out from the recording medium and in which a recording operation of the data on the recording medium or a reproducing operation of the data from the recording medium is carried out by writing data into the memory means and reading the data out of the memory means;

memory control means for controlling the writing of data into the memory means and the reading of data out of the memory means, wherein the improvement comprises that the memory control means, autonomously with respect to the system controller, creates a sector data storing area and an additive data storing area in each sector-based data storing area in the memory means to store prescribed data in the additive data storing area in accordance with the sector-based data which is stored in the sector data storing area and stores the prescribed data in the additive data storing area in accordance with the sector-based data stored in the sector data storing area.

2. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said prescribed data in the additive data storing area is at least one of track number, track change information, identification code of stereo/monaural, emphasis information, information of inhibit/permit copyright, error information, segment link information, and running time.

3. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an access address to the additive data storing area is generated by the memory control means based on a sector count value at the time when a sector of data is written into the memory means or read out from the memory means.

4. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the type including:

a system controller;

a memory means for storing, in a sector-based data storing area, data to be recorded on a recording medium and/or data which are read out from the recording medium and in which a recording operation of the data on the recording medium or a reproducing operation of the data from the recording medium is carried out by writing data into the memory means and reading the data out of the memory means;

a memory control means for controlling the writing of data into the memory means and the reading of data out of the memory means, wherein the improvement comprises that the memory control means, autonomously with respect to the system controller, creates a sector data storing area and an additive data storing area in each sector-based data storing area in the memory means to store a prescribed data in the additive data storing area in accordance with the sector-based data which is stored in the sector data storing area and stores the prescribed data in the additive data storing area in correspondence with the sector-based data stored in the sector data storing area;

the recording and/or reproducing apparatus further comprising as the memory control means;

sector counter means for counting sectors and generating a sector count value;

byte counter means for counting bytes in a sector and generating a byte count value;

address generating means for determining a sector address on the basis of the sector count value and determining a byte address on the basis of the byte count value to generate and output an access address based on the sector address and byte address; and

offset byte generating means for supplying the address generating means with an offset value corresponding to the byte address for the additive data storing area of the sector-based data storing area in the memory means.