JP2003059247A - Disk reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit a user to easily detect a desired content and to smoothly reproduce it without being confused with an operation. SOLUTION: The number of contents recorded in a disk medium is clearly displayed in a block and the content block to be reproduced is selected while a title is referred to. Thus, the program searching/reproduction of the desired content can easily be performed. Then, it becomes clear which content is to be reproduced next by a key operation by combining a device with control panel GUI. Thus, the operability of control panel GUI is improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for performing a cue reproduction on a disk medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 9, when a content conventionally recorded on a disk medium such as an AVHDD is reproduced, a disk device (904) is displayed from an operation panel GUI (901) displayed on a television or a personal computer. Through the disk control device (902) for controlling the above, unidirectionally issuing operation commands such as reproduction and skip to the disk device (904).

Further, in order to display the content title, it is necessary to display a title banner (903) different from the operation panel GUI (901).

[0004]

However, when the operation is performed by the operation panel GUI (901), there is no means for grasping the current reproduction content position among many contents recorded on the disc medium, and ,
It is up to the user to memorize where the desired content is with respect to the current playback position, and when the recorded content increases, many functions such as fast-forward and fast-reverse are used to search for the desired content, which is troublesome. This was often the case.

In addition, many users are not accustomed to the operation of the disk medium, and it is difficult to intuitively predict the content to be reproduced next by the reverse skip or fast reverse operation.
This has been a cause of troublesome finding of desired contents.

Further, the content title is not displayed during the operation on the operation panel GUI (901), and the content cannot be found by the title. or,
In order to display the content title, it is necessary to terminate the operation panel GUI (901) once and display the title banner (903), and the operability is very poor.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to allow a user to easily find a desired content and smoothly reproduce it without being confused by the operation.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a content block representing a recorded content recorded on a disc medium is displayed on an operation panel GUI to clearly indicate the position of the content to be currently reproduced. , The position of the playback content position is clearly indicated to the operation (corresponding to claim 1). By doing so, it is possible to intuitively grasp which content is reproduced.

Further, it is possible to select a content to be reproduced on the content block and to reproduce the content by performing a confirming operation (corresponding to claim 2). By doing so, the specified content can be immediately reproduced regardless of which content is currently reproduced.

Further, the content title is displayed on the operation panel GUI so that the content can be immediately understood, and the title of the selected content is displayed when the content to be reproduced for cueing is selected by the block (claim 3). Corresponding to). By doing so, it is possible to search for the desired content without repeatedly checking the reproduction operation.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of a disc reproducing apparatus of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

(Embodiment 1) The present embodiment claims
In response to the above, a method of clearly indicating the content position of the reproduction target when the user moves the cursor focus of the operation button on the operation panel GUI will be described.

In FIG. 1, a disk device (107)
The current reproduction target content number (110) and the total number of contents (111) are acquired from the disk control device (106) for controlling the operation, and the current cursor focus position (112) of the operation button from the operation panel GUI (105).
Is acquired, and the content to be reproduced next is determined when the button is pressed.

In the playback position GUI (102) displayed on the disc playback device (101), a content block (103) representing content is stored in the total number of contents (11).
1) is displayed, and a reproduction schedule focus (104) for indicating a reproduction position is displayed in the corresponding content block (10).
By moving to 3), the position of the content to be played is specified.

For example, when the current cursor focus position (112) of the operation panel GUI (105) is moved to the latest content playback button (LP), the playback scheduled focus (104) is moved to the rightmost content block (103). .

A specific processing flow will be described with reference to FIG. The disc reproduction device (201) requests the disc control device (202) for the state of the disc device (203) (reproduction / stop, etc.), reproduction target content number (content number currently being reproduced), and number of contents ( 210), and the information is acquired (211) and stored.

The state of the disk device (203) has changed, the content to be reproduced has changed, or recording has been performed.
When the number of contents has increased or decreased due to recording, deletion, etc. (21
In step 2), the information is acquired (211) from the disk control device (202) and the information is retained each time. As a result, the number of content blocks of the reproduction position GUI is determined and displayed, the current reproduction target content block is displayed, and the reproduction scheduled focus is displayed (213).

Next, the operation panel GUI is operated by the user.
It is assumed that when the cursor focus of the operation button on (204) is moved (214), the notification is received, the operation button focus position is acquired (215), and the button operation is performed, the reproduction is performed. The content is judged (216) based on the table of FIG. This table is an example, but other operations and states are also defined and judged in this table.

The reproduction position G of the disk reproducing device (201) is based on the moving destination content position obtained from FIG.
By moving (217) the playback schedule focus in the UI to the content block scheduled to be played, the user can intuitively grasp which content is played back when the operation is performed.

(Embodiment 2) This embodiment is claimed in claim 2.
Corresponding to the invention of No. 2, a method of reproducing the corresponding content when the user moves the selection focus in the reproduction position GUI of the disc reproducing apparatus will be described.

In FIG. 4, a disk reproducing device (401)
Has a function of moving a selection focus (404) for selecting the content to be played back to the beginning on the content block (403) of the reproduction position GUI (402) with a remote controller or a keyboard (410). After the position change of (404), when the confirmation operation is performed (411), the content number is specified to the disc control device (405) and a playback command is issued (412), so that the desired content can be easily found at the beginning. You can

A specific processing flow will be described with reference to FIG. The disc reproduction device (501) requests (510) the reproduction target content number (the number of the content currently being reproduced) and the number of contents to the disc control device (502), acquires the information (511), and holds it. I'll do it.

When the content to be reproduced in the disk device (503) changes or when the number of contents increases or decreases due to recording, sound recording, deletion, etc. (512), the disk control device (502) sends a notification and information to the content each time. It is acquired (511) and held. As a result, the number of content blocks of the reproduction position GUI is determined and displayed, and the current reproduction target content block and the selection focus are displayed (513).

Playback position GU is operated by the user.
When the selective focus of I is moved (514), only the focus position is changed and the operation command is not issued.

After moving the selection focus, it is judged whether or not the confirmation processing has been performed (517). If not, timeout occurs in n seconds (518), and the current reproduction target content block is set to the reproduction position GUI. The selective focus is moved (519).

After the selected focus is moved, if the changed position of the selected focus is confirmed by some operation (515), the content of the changed position is designated and a reproduction command is issued to the disc controller (502) (516). By doing so, the cue reproduction of the desired content is realized.

(Embodiment 3) The present embodiment claims 3
And a method of displaying the content title corresponding to the position when the user moves the selection focus in the reproduction position GUI of the disc reproducing apparatus, and
This section describes how to display the content title during normal playback.

In FIG. 6, a disk reproducing device (601)
At start-up (610), and playback position GUI (60
Whenever the selection focus (603) of 2) is moved by the remote controller or the keyboard (611), the content number having the current selection focus is designated to the disc control device (605) to request the title (612). The title of the content is acquired (613), and the title G
By displaying on the UI (604), it is possible to confirm the title of the current program while operating, and it is possible to easily find the desired content without playing it one by one.

A concrete processing flow will be described with reference to FIG. The disc reproduction device (701) requests the disc control device (702) for the reproduction target content number (the number of the content currently being reproduced) and the title of the content (710), and acquires information (71).
1) Then, keep it.

Whenever the reproduction target content of the disk device (703) changes (712), information is acquired (711) and held together with the notification from the disk control device (702). This makes it possible to display (713) the title in the normal reproduction on the title GUI.

When the selective focus of the disc reproducing apparatus (701) is changed by the operation of the user (714)
Requests (715) the disc control device (702) for the title of the content corresponding to the focus position,
After the information is acquired, it is displayed on the title GUI (716).

After the selection focus is moved, it is judged whether or not the confirmation processing has been performed (718). If not, timeout occurs in n seconds (719), and the reproduction position GUI of the content block currently being reproduced is displayed. The selection focus is moved, and the content title at that position is displayed on the title GUI (720).

FIG. 8 shows a configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. The disc reproducing apparatus (801) includes a GUI generation unit (802) for generating a GUI, a VRAM (803) for displaying GUI data on a screen, a control unit (804) for issuing commands, determining contents, and controlling operations.
It is composed of a main memory (805) for holding information necessary for control.

[0034]

As described above, the disc reproducing apparatus of the present invention allows the user to intuitively grasp the position of the content to be reproduced, and by using it together with the operation panel GUI, the operability can be improved. Therefore, it is possible to easily find a desired content from many contents recorded on a disk medium whose recording capacity is further expanded.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a method for realizing claim 1 in the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific flow of the method for realizing claim 1 in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for determining a content destination to which a reproducing head moves when operated from an operation panel GUI in a state of each disk device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a method for realizing claim 2 in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific flow of the method for realizing claim 2 in the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows a method for realizing claim 3 in the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific flow of the method for realizing claim 3 in the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a conventional flow of playing a disc medium and displaying a title.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 disc playback device 102 playback position GUI 103 content block 104 scheduled playback focus 105 operation panel GUI 106 disc control device 107 disc device 110 current playback target content number 111 total content number 112 current cursor focus position 201 disc playback device 202 disc control device 203 disk device 204 operation panel GUI 210 current state / reproduction target content number / content number request 211 current state / reproduction target content number / content number acquisition 212 current state / reproduction target content / content number change 213 content block number Confirm & display / Current playback target content block / playback schedule focus display 214 Cursor focus movement 215 operation button operation Button focus position acquisition 216 Judgment of movement destination by performing operation 217 Move reproduction target focus to corresponding block 401 Disc reproduction device 402 Play position GUI 403 Content block 404 Select focus 405 Disc control device 410 Move selection focus by remote control or keyboard operation 411 Confirmation operation 412 Issue playback command by specifying content position 501 Disk playback device 502 Disk control device 503 Disk device 510 Request content number / content number to be played 511 Content number playback / content number 512 Content to be played / content Change in number 513 Determination and display of number of content blocks / current playback target content block / selection focus display 514 Move selection focus 15 Confirmation process 516 Issued playback command of changed position content 517 Judgment as to whether confirmation process has been performed 518 Judgment as to whether or not n seconds have passed after moving the selective focus 519 Move selective focus to the currently reproduced content block 601 Disc reproducing device 602 Playback position GUI 603 Selection focus 604 Title GUI 605 Disc control device 610 Disk playback device startup 611 Move selection focus by remote control or keyboard operation 612 Request title of contents with current selection focus 613 Obtain title 701 Disc playback device 702 Disc control device 703 Disc device 710 Reproduction target content number / title request 711 Reproduction target content number / title acquisition 712 Reproduction target content change 713 Display title on title GUI 714 Move selection focus 715 Request title of destination content 716 Display title on title GUI 717 Confirmation process 718 Judge whether confirmation process is performed 719 Have n seconds passed after moving the selection focus Judgment 720 Display the content title of the currently played content in the title GUI 801 Disc playback device 802 GUI generation unit 803 VRAM 804 Control unit 805 Main memory 901 Operation panel GUI 902 Disc control device 903 Title banner GUI 904 Disc device

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus for reproducing / stopping content recorded on a disk medium, which has means for displaying an operation panel GUI for operating the disk medium on a display screen, and means for displaying the operation panel GUI on the disk medium. The number of contents such as video / audio that is recorded, and the number of blocks representing the recorded contents (hereinafter, content block) is the same as the number of the acquired contents.
A unit for displaying on the UI, a unit for acquiring the current content to be reproduced, a unit for displaying a block representing the content to be reproduced (hereinafter, a content block for reproduction) on the content block, and the operation Means for determining the content to be played back by executing the button operation at the time when the focus position of the operation button on the panel GUI is changed, and clearly indicating the block indicating the location of the content (hereinafter, playback scheduled focus) A device characterized by comprising. 2. A means for displaying a block (hereinafter, referred to as a selection focus) for selecting a content to be reproduced for cueing on the content block, and a means for moving the selection focus by an operation means to perform a confirmation operation, The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for issuing a cue reproducing command for the content. 3. A unit for acquiring the title of the content to be reproduced from a disc device and displaying the title on the operation panel GUI, and each time the selection focus is moved,
The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for acquiring and displaying a content title indicated by the content block.