Method and apparatus for the recording the reproduction of transmitted programme contribution

• US 7,088,909 B1
• Filed: 06/07/1999
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt Gmbh (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Thomas-Brandt GmbH
• Inventors: Wördemann, Hermes
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US09/326,883
• Time in Patent Office: 2,619 Days
• Field of Search: 386/69, 386/68, 386/46, 386/1, 386/6, 386/4, 386/52, 386/55, 386/124, 386/125, 386/126, 386/45, 386/40, 360/13, 725/22, 725/25, 725/28, 725/32
• US Class Current: 386/251
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/216 Rewritable discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2575 DVD-RAMs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2583 wherein two standards are used on a single disc, e.g. one DVD section and one CD section
• 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 27/036 Insert-editing
• 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 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• 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 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

In the context of recording program contributions, in particular television transmissions, it is frequently undesirable for the advertising blocks broadcast during the transmission also to be recorded and displayed in the event of subsequent reproduction. The invention is concerned with the problem of reliably suppressing such advertising blocks in the event of subsequent reproduction. To that end, it proposes firstly recording the transmission including the broadcast advertising blocks and then carrying out a search during which the beginning and the end of the advertising blocks (WU1–WU3) are marked. The information items (CIDN1, CDIN3) thus obtained are used in order either to subsequently record associated navigation data (CN1–CNi+3) on the storage medium (43), the said navigation data ensuring that the stored advertising blocks are masked out in the event of reproduction, or resorting of the recorded data cells is performed, in the case of which the data of the program contribution are then packed as compactly as possible and the data cells for the advertising blocks are eliminated in this way.

Claims

1. A method for the recording and reproduction of a program contribution, comprising the steps of:

firstly recording on a storage medium, the program contribution including all program parts, such as advertising blocks;

subsequently starting of a search for a beginning and end of undesired program parts;

collecting information items associated with the undesired program parts;

using the information items to perform re-sorting of recorded data cells on the same storage medium in such a way that the data of the program contribution are situated in succession in a compactly packed manner without the undesired program parts.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein during the re-sorting of the recorded data cells, the data cells occupied by data of the undesired program parts are eliminated by being overwritten with corresponding data of the program contribution.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein measures are taken using splicing tools, which ensure a seamless transition from a video scene prior to masking out of a program part to a subsequent video scene.

4. A method for the recording and reproduction of a program contribution, comprising the steps of:

firstly recording on a storage medium, the program contribution including all program parts, such as advertising blocks;

subsequently starting of a search for a beginning and end of undesired program parts;

collecting information items associated with the undesired program parts; and

storing, on the storage medium at the beginning of a specific one of the undesired program parts, the information item associated with the specific undesired program part in the form of jump information specifying a location at which data cells should be read out next to continue the reproduction of the program contribution without interruption by the specific undesired program part.

5. An apparatus for the recording and reproduction of a program contribution with a storage media on which, firstly the program contribution including all program parts, such as advertising blocks, is recorded, the apparatus comprising:

means for carrying out a search for a beginning and end of undesired program parts;

means for storing, on the storage medium at the location of the beginning of a specific one of the undesired program parts, navigation data for identifying the beginning and end of the specific undesired program part; and

means for reproducing the program contribution without the undesired program parts.

6. An apparatus for the recording and reproduction of a program contribution with a storage media on which, firstly the program contribution including all program parts, such as advertising blocks, is recorded, the apparatus comprising:

means for carrying out a search for a beginning and end of undesired program parts;

means for storing navigation data for identifying start and end times of the program parts; and

means for re-sorting, on the same storage medium, recorded data cells in such a way that the data of the program contribution are situated in succession in a compactly packed manner without the undesired program parts.