Optical disk for high resolution and general video recording, optical disk reproduction apparatus, optical disk recording apparatus, and reproduction control information generation apparatus

• US 8,160,420 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2009
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Oshima, Mitsuaki, Kitaura, Hiromu, Fukuda, Hideki, Ishihara, Hideshi
• Primary Examiner(s): BOCCIO, VINCENT F
• Application Number:
  US12/464,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20090220215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,070 Days
• Field of Search: 386/248, 386/290, 386/332, 386/336, 386/341, 386/354, 386/233, 348/42, 348/43, 348/47, 348/48, 348/49, 348/50, 348/51, 375/240.27
• US Class Current: 386/233
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10953 Concurrent recording or playback of different streams or files
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/10 Processing, recording or transmission of stereoscopic or multi-view image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/15 for colour aspects of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/167 Synchronising or controlling image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/178 Metadata, e.g. disparity information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/189 Recording image signals; Reproducing recorded image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/239 using two 2D image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance H04N13/243 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/341 using temporal multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/597 specially adapted for multi-view video sequence encoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/0085 Motion estimation from stereoscopic image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• 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 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/04 Synchronising for television systems using pulse code modulation H04N7/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 : Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/46 : for receiving on more than one standard at will deflecting circuits of multi-standard receivers H04N3/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 : on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/012 : Conversion between an interlaced and a progressive signal for graphics images G09G2310/0229
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0122 : the input and the output signals having different aspect ratios
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 : for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 : using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/877 : by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate memory

Abstract

The present invention has an objective of realizing compatibility of an optical disk having a high resolution video signal recorded thereon and a system for reproducing the optical disk, with a conventional system for producing a standard resolution video signal. A high resolution video signal is divided by video division means into a main signal and a sub signal, and the main signal and the sub signal are MPEG-encoded. The stream of the main signal and the stream of the sub signal are divided into 1 GOP or more of frames. First interleave blocks 54 each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the main signal and second interleave blocks 55 each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the sub signal are recorded on an optical disk 1. A high resolution reproduction apparatus reproduces both the first and second interleave blocks to obtain a high resolution video output. A non-high quality picture reproduction apparatus reproduces only the first or second interleave blocks to obtain a standard resolution video output.

Claims

1. An encoding apparatus for encoding a stream, comprising:

an encoding section, including a processor, that encodes i) a stereoscopic image including a right image of the stereoscopic image and a left image of the stereoscopic image, and ii) a non-stereoscopic image, to form the stream; and

an identification information section that provides i) a first identification information that is included in the stream, the first identification information indicating whether a coded image is a coded stereoscopic image or a coded non-stereoscopic image, ii) a second identification information that is included in the stream, the second identification information indicating whether the coded image is a coded progressive image or a coded non-progressive image, and iii) a third identification information that is included in the stream, the third identification information indicating whether the coded image is encoded from a first image which should be outputted as two frames or a second image which should be outputted as three frames;

wherein the right image is different from the non-stereoscopic image and the left image is different from the non-stereoscopic image.

2. An encoding method for encoding a stream, comprising:

encoding, by using a processor, i) a stereoscopic image including a right image of the stereoscopic image and a left image of the stereoscopic image, and ii) a non-stereoscopic image, to form the stream; and

generating i) a first identification information that is included in the stream, the first identification information indicating whether a coded image is a coded stereoscopic image or a coded non-stereoscopic image, ii) a second identification information that is included in the stream, the second identification information indicating whether the coded image is a coded progressive image or a coded non-progressive image, and iii) a third identification information that is included in the stream, the third identification information indicating whether the coded image is encoded from a first image which should be outputted as two frames or a second image which should be outputted as three frames;

wherein the right image is different from the non-stereoscopic image and the left image is different from the non-stereoscopic image.