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Video disc having an aspect ratio information and video disc player having an aspect ratio converting function

  • US 6,463,210 B1
  • Filed: 08/14/2000
  • Issued: 10/08/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A video disc player having an aspect ratio converting function for reading out data including image data which is stored in an image data area formed in tracks on a video disc and have a single aspect ratio and identification data which is stored in an identification area which indicates the single aspect ratio at which said image data is stored in said image data area, said video disc player comprising:

  • means firstly reading said identification data from said identification area and thereafter reading said image data from said image data area and reproducing the image data and the identification data recorded on the video disc as reproduced image data and reproduced identification data, respectively;

    means for detecting the reproduced identification data;

    a key for enabling a user to manually designate an aspect ratio of an image to be generated;

    comparing means for comparing the manually designated aspect ratio and the aspect ratio indicated by the identification data; and

    image information processing means for converting the reproduced image data into a display image data having the manually designated aspect ratio, according to the comparison result by the comparing means and forming an image signal on the basis of the display image data.

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