JP2003078867A - Method for reproducing video information, reproducing device and recording medium with reproduction program recorded thereon - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically reproduce a multistory part as a user preselects the multistory part in reproducing video information having the multistory part. SOLUTION: When the multistory part is included, each multistory block included in the multistory part is searched in advance, and images 17 for selection about respective multistory blocks (1-1 to 2-2, etc.,) that are searched are arranged and displayed on the screen of a monitor 9. If the user preselects his/her desired multistory block among the respective multistory blocks by using the arranged and displayed images for selection, and when the multistory part is approached in reproducing a DVD video disk 2, the multistory block preselected by the user is automatically selected and reproduced at the multistory part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a video information reproducing method,
The present invention relates to a reproducing device and a recording medium on which a reproducing program is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recent video information, for example, video information stored in a DVD video disc, includes a plurality of videos that progress in the same time, and a user performs a switching operation by a DVD video player. There is a function that can change the story arbitrarily. This function is called the multi-story function. When performing multi-story switching of video information having this multi-story function, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, a DVD video disc is reproduced (step S1 (hereinafter, the word "step" is abbreviated)), and the multi-story function is performed. (S2 "Y
es "), the DVD player then displays a screen that asks the user which playback to stop playing the disc once, and when the user selects a story (S3), the story cannot be changed. Disc playback progresses with the story (S4, S5).

[0003]

When the multi-story function is provided, the selected story may not be the story desired by the user. For example, there are cases where the child is shown a scene that he or she does not want to show in the education of the child. An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art and to automatically reproduce the multi-story portion as previously selected by the user when reproducing the video information having the multi-story function.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, in the video information reproducing method according to claim 1, when a multi-story portion is included, each multi-story block included in the multi-story portion is searched in advance, and the search is performed. The selected images for each of the selected multi-story blocks are displayed side by side on the monitor screen, and for the multi-story part, the multi-story blocks previously selected by the user based on the images displayed side by side are reproduced following the normal blocks. To do.

According to the video information reproducing apparatus of claim 2,
When a multi-story portion is included, a search unit that searches in advance each multi-story block included in the multi-story portion, and a display unit that displays the selection images for each searched multi-story block side by side on the monitor screen. And a reproducing means for reproducing the multi-story block previously selected by the user based on the images displayed side by side with respect to the multi-story part, following the normal block.

Further, in the recording medium on which the video information reproducing program according to claim 3 is recorded, when a multi-story portion is included, a process of preliminarily searching each multi-story block included in the multi-story portion, and the searched The process of displaying the selection images for each multi-story block side by side on the monitor screen, and for the multi-story part, the multi-story block previously selected by the user based on the images displayed side by side is reproduced successively to the normal block. A program for executing the processing to be performed on the computer is recorded.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to illustrated embodiments. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the DVD video disc player 1 according to the embodiment. 3 to 4 are flowcharts showing the operation of the DVD video disc player 1 according to the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a front view showing an example of the screen display of the monitor 9. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 2 is a DVD video disc. A disk controller 3 reads data from the DVD video disk 2. An MPEG decoder 4 expands data compressed in the MPEG format. A buffer memory 5 temporarily stores the read data. An audio digital-analog converter 6 converts digital voice data into an analog voice signal. A speaker 7 outputs the converted analog audio signal. A video encoder 8 converts the decompressed video data into a video signal. Reference numeral 9 denotes the monitor also shown in FIG. 5, which displays the converted video signal as a video on the screen. Reference numeral 10 denotes a touch panel, which is arranged so as to overlap the surface of the monitor 9. Reference numeral 11 denotes a remote control light receiving unit that receives an infrared signal from a remote controller (not shown) operated by the user. Reference numeral 12 denotes a CPU, which uses the RAM 13 to execute each processing described later.

The operation of the DVD video disc player 1 according to the embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. First D
The DVD video disc 2 is inserted into the VD video disc player 1. Before reproducing the DVD video disc 2, the CPU 12 controls the disc controller 3 to determine whether the DVD video disc includes the multi-story part, and the DVD video disc 2 stores the video manager information (VMGI) in the video manager information (VMGI). Read all multi story blocks (ILVB) (S1
1).

The multi-story block read from the DVD video disc 2 is transferred from the disc controller 3 to the MPEG decoder 4, and the MPEG decoder 4
Is stored in the buffer memory 5 connected to. C
The PU 12 passes through the MPEG decoder 4 and the buffer memory 5
If the multi-story block stored in the DVD is read and the multi-story information is not included, that is, the DVD video disc does not include the multi-story part,
Playback is performed in the conventional format (S12 “No” → S25).

When the CPU 12 reads the multi-story block stored in the buffer memory 5 via the MPEG decoder 4 and determines that the DVD video disc 2 includes multi-story information, that is, the multi-story portion is included, the CPU 12 determines A message is output to the monitor 9 via the MPEG decoder 4 to confirm with the user whether or not the multi-story automatic switching setting is performed (S1).
3). The user uses the remote control or the touch panel 10 to select whether or not to perform the multi-story automatic switching setting. When the multi-story automatic switching setting is not performed, the reproduction in the above-mentioned conventional format, that is, the reproduction of the DVD video disc in the format selected by the user each time the multi-story portion is approached is performed (S13 “No” →
S25).

When the multi-story automatic switching setting is performed (S13 "Yes"), the CPU 12 controls the disk controller 3 to search the DVD video disk 2 for all multi-story blocks in the disk and normal blocks before and after the multi-story block. The multi-story block data searched from the DVD video disc 2 is sequentially transferred from the disc controller 3 to the MPEG decoder 4, and MP
The EG decoder 4 stores it in the buffer memory 5 and
After decoding the data, the video of all the multi-story blocks and the video of the normal blocks before and after the multi-story blocks are reduced and displayed as still images on the monitor 9 via the video encoder 8 (FIG. 5, reference numeral 16 is a normal block). Is a still image of the multi story block 1-1 to 1-1.
It is a still image about 2-2. Each still image of reference numeral 17 corresponds to the selection image referred to in each claim). In addition, when the still images 16 and 17 of all the multi-story block images and the images of the normal blocks before and after the multi-story block images exceed one screen of the monitor 9, they are displayed in several pages (FIG. 5).
Reference numeral 14). When viewing the next page, touch the portion 15 of "Next →".

The user operates the remote control or the touch panel 1
0 is used to select whether to perform confirmation playback to confirm the contents of the multi-story block image (S
15) If the confirmation playback of the multi-story block image is not performed here, the process of the next S16 is not executed (S
15 “No” → S17). When performing confirmation playback of the multi-story block video, the user confirms using the remote control or the touch panel 10 from the still images 17 (multi-story blocks 1-1 and 2-2) of the multi-story block displayed on the monitor 9. A multi-story block to be reproduced is selected (S15 “Yes”).

The CPU 12 controls the disc controller 3 to search the DVD video disc 2 for the image of the selected multi-story block in the disc. DV
The images of the multi-story blocks searched from the D-video disc 2 are sequentially streamed from the disc controller 3 to MPEG.
The data is transferred to the decoder 4, the MPEG decoder 4 stores it in the buffer memory 5, decodes the data, and reproduces the video of the multi-story block on the monitor 9 via the video encoder 8 (S16).

After the confirmation reproduction is performed as necessary in the above manner, the user can use the remote controller or the touch panel 1
0 is used to sequentially select and set the ones to be reproduced from the still images 17 of the respective multi-story block images displayed on the monitor 9 (S17 → S18 “No” → S
17). When the multi-story video to be reproduced is selected and the setting is completed (S18 “Yes”), the CPU 12 controls the disk controller 3 to search the multi-story block selected from the DVD video disk 2 and the normal blocks before and after it. The selected multi-story block searched from the DVD video disc 2 and the normal blocks before and after it are transferred from the disc controller 3 to the MPEG decoder 4 as set, and the MPEG decoder 4 stores them in the buffer memory 5 and decodes the data. To the monitor 9 via the video encoder 8.
Playback starts with only the I picture in the EG image (S1
9). If you want to stop the playback midway, use the remote control or touch panel 10 to stop the playback (S20 "N
o → S21 ”). If not, the reproduction is continued until the end (S22).

If it is desired to change the setting of the multi-story, it is reset (S23 "Yes" → S17).
When there is no need for resetting, multi-story automatic switching playback of the DVD video disc 2, that is, the DVD video disc 2 is played back from the beginning, and when the multi-story portion is approached, the user selects in advance by the procedure described above. DVD video disc reproduction is performed in the mode according to the present invention in which the multi-story block being played is automatically read and reproduced (S24).

Modifications will be described below. In the above-described embodiment, the CPU 12 and the RAM 13 execute the processes shown in FIGS. These processes may be executed by a program on a computer. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the present invention is applied to the video information stored on the DVD video disc. The present invention can be applied to other video information, for example, video information downloaded through a network such as the Internet.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention,
You can set the story as you want from the beginning. Therefore, for example, the situation where the child does not want to show it in education is not shown to the child. In addition, the complexity of selecting stories one by one during the video playback is eliminated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an example of a reproduction procedure of a conventional DVD video disc.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart (part 1) showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart (part 2) showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing an example of a screen display on the monitor 9 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... DVD video disk player 2 of an embodiment example ... DVD video disk 3 ... Disk controller 4 ... MPEG decoder 5 ... Buffer memory 6 ... Audio digital analog converter 7 ... Speaker 8 ... Video encoder 9 ... Monitor 10 ... Touch panel 11 ... Remote control Light receiving unit 12 ... CPU 13 ... RAM 14 ... Screen page display 15 ... Page feed display 16 ... Normal image still image 17 ... Still image of each multi-story block

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. When a multi-story portion is included, each multi-story block included in the multi-story portion is searched in advance, and selection images for each searched multi-story block are displayed side by side on a monitor screen. The multi-story part is a video information reproducing method characterized in that a multi-story block previously selected by a user based on the images displayed side by side is reproduced following a normal block. 2. A search means for preliminarily searching each multi-story block included in the multi-story part when a multi-story part is included, and a selection image for each searched multi-story block on a monitor screen. An image characterized by comprising display means for displaying side by side and reproducing means for reproducing the multi-story block previously selected by the user based on the images displayed side by side for the multi-story part, following the normal block. Information reproduction device. 3. A process of preliminarily searching each multi-story block included in the multi-story part when a multi-story part is included, and a selection image for each of the searched multi-story blocks is arranged on a monitor screen. A program for executing a display process and a process for reproducing a multi-story block previously selected by the user based on the images displayed side by side on the multi-story block on a normal block following the normal block is recorded on the computer. A recording medium having a video information reproduction program recorded therein.