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

• US 8,270,802 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2012
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• 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:
  US13/364,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20120189276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 229 Days
• Field of Search: 386/336, 386/341, 386/354, 348/42, 348/51
• 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

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 GPO or more of frames. First interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the main signal and second interleave blocks each including 1 GOP or more of the stream of the sub signal are recorded on an optical disk. 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. A decoding apparatus for decoding a stream, comprising:

a receiving section that receives the stream, the stream comprising i) a coded image is coded from a stereoscopic image or a non-stereoscopic image, ii) a first identification information indicating whether the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image or the non-stereoscopic image, iii) a second identification information indicating whether the coded image is coded from a progressive image or a non-progressive image, iv) a third identification information indicating whether a decoded image is outputted as two frames or three frames;

an extracting section that extracts the first identification information, the second identification information and the third identification information from the stream; and

a decoding section, including a processor, that decodes the coded image and outputs the stereoscopic image as two progressive frames when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image and the third identification information indicates that the decoded image is outputted as two frames;

decodes the coded image and outputs the stereoscopic image as three progressive frames when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image and the third identification information indicates the decoded image is outputted as three frames; and

decodes the coded non-stereoscopic image and outputs the non-stereoscopic image as the progressive image when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image;

decodes the coded non-stereoscopic image and outputs the non-stereoscopic image as the non-progressive image when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-progressive image;

wherein the stereoscopic image includes a right image of the stereoscopic image and a left image of the stereoscopic image, and

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

2. A decoding method for decoding a stream, comprising:

a receiving the stream, the stream comprising i) a coded image is coded from a stereoscopic image or a non-stereoscopic image, ii) a first identification information indicating whether the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image or the non-stereoscopic image, iii) a second identification information indicating whether the coded image is coded from a progressive image or a non-progressive image, iv) a third identification information indicating whether a decoded image is outputted as two frames or three frames;

an extracting the first identification information, the second identification information and the third identification information from the stream; and

a decoding, including a processor, the coded image and outputs the stereoscopic image as two progressive frames when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image and the third identification information indicates that the decoded image is outputted as two frames;

a decoding the coded image and outputting the stereoscopic image as three progressive frames when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image and the third identification information indicates the decoded image is outputted as three frames; and

a decoding the coded non-stereoscopic image and outputting the non-stereoscopic image as the progressive image when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the progressive image;

a decoding the coded non-stereoscopic image and outputting the non-stereoscopic image as the non-progressive image when the first identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-stereoscopic image and the second identification information indicates that the coded image is coded from the non-progressive image;

wherein the stereoscopic image includes a right image of the stereoscopic image and a left image of the stereoscopic image, and

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