JPH05166352A - Disk reproducer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the mutual communication between the disk reproducers by building a MODEM into a CD-I (interactive) player. CONSTITUTION:The CD-I players (a-c) containing the MODEMs respectively are connected to each other via a communication network 400. Thus these playes (a-c) can perform the mutual communication with other CD-I playes (a-c) via a communication circuit 300. These players are applied to the match type games using the communication cables, the communication lectures using the telephone circuits, etc. Thus the range of application can be increased for the CD-I players.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a disc reproducing apparatus suitable for use in, for example, a CD-I player for reproducing a CD-I disc in which image information and the like are recorded together with audio information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a system in which a CD-I (CD Interactive) player is used as a disc reproducing apparatus,
In addition to audio signals, image information signals, text data signals, program data signals, etc. are recorded on a CD (compact disc), and interactive operations are performed on the CD-I.

That is, since this system has a reproducing function for characters, images, sounds, computer data, etc., AV consumer equipment centering on audiovisual, electronic publishing centering on characters, and information files. It is used for database services centered around, and for education and entertainment that requires interactive response.

The CD-I player is provided with a player body for playing a mounted CD, two trigger buttons and an XY device on the outer surface, and a display device such as an LCD display on the inner surface. With a lid, and a signal processing system (C
It has a PU).

[0005]

However, in the conventional CD-I player, mutual communication with other CD-I players is not assumed.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a disc reproducing device which can communicate with another disc reproducing device.

[0007]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION A disc reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is, for example, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, a disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing a disc in which a video signal and an audio signal are recorded on the same track. In a, a modem 200 for performing mutual communication with other disk reproducing devices b and c via a communication line 400 is provided.

[0008]

Since the disk reproducing apparatus according to the present invention has a built-in modem, mutual communication signals can be transmitted between the disk reproducing apparatuses having the built-in modem.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A preferred embodiment of a disc reproducing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a CD-I player according to this embodiment. Inside a player main body 1, a disk drive unit in which a mounted CD3 is rotationally driven, and an optical head along the radial direction of the CD3 are shown. And a circuit board on which a reproduction signal obtained from the optical head is processed.

On the front surface 1a of the player body 1,
A headphone jack 5, a volume control dial 7, and a power source on / off switch 9 are provided, and a lid 1 that is opened and closed when the CD 3 is taken in and out of the player main body 1.
1 is attached. Trigger buttons 13 and 15, an XY device 17 and, for example, a 4-inch LCD display 19 are provided on the outer surface of the lid 11, and are operated by a switching operation of the LCD drive switch 48 (see FIG. 5). The LCD display 19 is turned on / off. The lid 11 is provided with a window 11a (closed with a transparent member), and through the window 11a,
The rotation state of the CD 3 can be visually recognized.

The lid 11 is opened when the open button 23 provided on the player main body 1 is pressed,
In this example, the reproducing operation is performed with the user closing the lid 11.

Here, as can be understood from FIG. 3, the XY device 17 moves the cursor displayed on the LCD display 19 to the X-axis by pressing the upper, lower, left and right parts.
-To move in the Y (vertical-horizontal) direction,
At this time, various menus (for example, play and stop) are simultaneously displayed on the LCD display 19. Therefore, when the cursor is moved to a desired display portion and the trigger button 13 or 15 is operated, selection of the menu is performed. After that, the player main body 1 operates according to the selected menu. In addition, as the XY device 17,
A pointing device such as a track pole, a mouse or a joystick can be used.

In the CD-I player of this example,
As the disc 3, a CD-I disc, a CD-I / CD
-DA disc (mixed disc of CD-I disc and CD-DA disc) and CD-DA disc (compact disc for music reproduction) are reproduced.
The data format of the DI disk will be described.

2 to 4 show the data format of the CD-I. The CD-I records data on the basis of a CD-ROM, and the data recording unit is the CD-RO.
Like M, it is a block. And one block is 98
Corresponding to a frame, the capacity of one block is 6 (the number of audio data) x 2 (2 channels of stereo) x 98 (the number of frames) = 2352 [bytes], and the recording capacity of the entire CD-I disc is, for example, 12 [diameter]. cm],
It is about 640 Mbytes.

There are two types of data structures of CD-I, Form 1 and Form 2, each of which is a CD-ROM.
It corresponds to the mode 1 and the mode 2 of. In addition, CD-
Mode 1 in the ROM is one in which an error detection code and an error correction code are added to one block of data to enable strong error correction, while the CD-R
The mode 2 in the OM is a mode in which the error detection code and the error correction code are not added and the user data amount is expanded.

In the CD-I, the form 1 and the form 2 can be designated for each block, and the form 1 and the form 2 can be mixed in one disc.

The CD-I format is CD-RO.
The difference from the M format is that a sub-header of 8 bytes is placed at the beginning of the user data. In this sub-header, blocks in which audio, video and data are recorded are time-division multiplexed in block units. It Then, in order to process these in real time, necessary data is double-written and stored, and this subheader is composed of four items of a file number, a channel number, a submode, and a data type.

FIG. 2 shows the structure of the form 1. In the form 1, a sync (12 bytes) is provided at the beginning, followed by a header (4 bytes) and a subheader (8 bytes). Provided after this, user data (2048 bytes), error detection code EDC
(4 bytes), P parity (172 bytes) for error correction, and Q parity (104 bytes) are added. This form 1 has improved error correction capability, and this form 1 is suitable for handling data such as character data and program data in which an error cannot be interpolated.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the form 2. In the form 2, a sync (12 bytes) is provided at the beginning, followed by a header (4 bytes) and a subheader (8 bytes). After this, user data (2324 bytes) and a reserve area (4 bytes) are provided. This form 2 is suitable for handling interpolable data such as audio data and video data. As shown in FIG. 4, the subheader added to the beginning of the user data includes a file number (2 bytes), a channel number (2 bytes), and
Sub mode (2 bytes) and data type (2 bytes)
Composed of.

Further, four modes are defined for writing audio data of CD-I. The first mode is a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz and a quantization bit number of 16 bits, which is the same as that of the current CD-DA. It is the same recording method, but this mode is intended for ultra-high-fidelity reproduction. On the other hand, in the second mode, the recording method is ADPC.
M (adaptive differential PCM) is used, the sampling frequency is 37.8 kHz, and the number of quantization bits is 8 bits. In this mode, an analog disk, that is, L
It can be reproduced with a sound quality of about P record, and the reproduction time is 2 hours for stereo and 4 hours for monaural, which is intended for high-fidelity reproduction.

Further, in the third mode, ADPCM is used as the recording system and the sampling frequency is 37.8.
In this mode, the number of quantization bits is 4 bits, and in this mode, it is possible to reproduce with the same sound quality as FM broadcasting, and the reproduction time is 4 hours for stereo and 8 hours for monaural, which is intended for long-term high-fidelity reproduction. ..

In the fourth mode, ADPCM is used as the recording method and the sampling frequency is 18.9.
kHz, the number of quantization bits is 4, the reproduction time is 8 hours for stereo and 16 hours for monaural, and this mode is intended for speech reproduction.

Next, the image data will be described. The image data is processed as follows according to the type. In the case of a natural image, the sampling frequency of the luminance signal Y is 7.6 MHz, the sampling frequency of the color difference signals U and V is 3.8 MHz, and sampling is performed at a ratio of 4: 2: 2, and each bit is 4 Bits are compressed and recorded, and at the time of reproduction, 8 bits are set. In the case of graphics, a CLUT (color lookup table) is used, and the CLUT graphics has three modes of 256 colors (8 bits), 128 colors (7 bits), and 16 colors (4 bits). Yes, you can select and use the required color from 16 million colors.

In the case of animation, a run length code is used, which compresses image data by using color information and the length between pixels.
Using such code, you can achieve full screen animation.

Next, the disc will be described as CD-
For I discs, mechanical dimensions such as outer diameter dimension, center hole dimension and thickness, optical parameters such as refractive index and reflectance, recording parameters such as disc rotation direction, recording linear velocity, track shape, track pitch, and operating environment. The situation is the same as that of a normal compact disc (CD-DA) for music.

Whether or not the disc is a CD-I disc is determined by TOC (Table Of Contents) in the lead-in area of the disc.
Disc is discriminated from the contents of the CD-I disc or CD-I
For a / CD-DA disc, PSEC is 10 when (POINT = A0). On the other hand, in other discs, the PSEC at the time of (POINT = A0) is 00, so the PSEC at the time of (POINT = A0).
From this, it can be determined whether the disc is a CD-I disc, a CD-I / CD-DA disc, or another disc. And CD-
The control field of (POINT = A0, A1, A2) of the I disc is (01 × 0), and the CD-I
The control field of (POINT = A0) of the / CD-DA disc is always (01 × 0), and the other control fields are (00 × 0). Therefore, it can be discriminated from the control field whether the disc is a CD-I disc or a CD-I / CD-DA disc.

Further, since the CD-I includes audio data and requires high-speed processing in real time, processing is performed in machine language. Therefore, the CPU is a 16-bit CPU developed by Motorola. 6
A CD-RTOS (real-time operating system) which specifies 8000 system and handles various files is based on OS9, and its program is incorporated in the system by ROM. At least two trigger buttons and an XY device are prepared as input devices, and there are two output systems, an audio signal system and a video signal system, and a CD-I player is a CD for music. -DA can be regenerated.

FIG. 5 shows the electrical construction of the CD-I player in this example. The disk 3 is rotated by the spindle motor 2 at CLV (constant linear velocity), and the spindle motor 2 is rotated. The spindle servo circuit 4 is controlled based on the clock reproduced by the CD reproducing circuit 6, and the output of the system controller 8 is supplied to the spindle servo circuit 4.

The recording signal of the disk 3 is reproduced by the optical head 10, and the optical head 10 is supported by the biaxial device. The output of the focus / tracking servo circuit 12 is supplied to the biaxial device. The output of the system controller 8 is supplied to the focus / tracking servo circuit 12, and the focus / tracking servo circuit 12 servos the optical head 10 in two axes in the focus direction and the tracking direction based on the output of the photodetector. Can be applied. Further, the optical head 10 can be moved in the radial direction of the disk 3 by a slide feed mechanism 14 using, for example, a linear motor. The slide feed mechanism 14 is controlled by a sled servo circuit 16 and the sled servo circuit 16 thereof is controlled. Is supplied with the output of the system controller 8 and the slide feed mechanism 14 allows the optical head 10 to access a desired track position.

The output of the optical head 10 is supplied to the CD reproducing circuit 6 via the RF amplifier 18, and the CD reproducing circuit 6 is composed of a bit clock reproducing circuit and the like. The output of the optical head 10 is EF
After being demodulated M and subjected to error correction processing, the CD reproducing circuit 6 is controlled by the system controller 8. The output of the CD reproducing circuit 6 is supplied to the CD-ROM reproducing circuit 20, and the CD-ROM reproducing circuit 20 is composed of a sync detection circuit, a descramble circuit, an error correction circuit and the like. In this case, the CD reproducing circuit 6 detects the sync, descrambling, checking the header address, and accessing the target block. Then, in the case of Form 1, error correction processing is further performed, and the CD-ROM reproduction circuit 20 is controlled by the system controller 20.

Next, an input is given to the system controller 8 from the input device A, and the input device A comprises two trigger buttons 13 and 15 and an XY device 17. And a CP for controlling the CD-I system
As U22, 68000 series is adopted, CP
A master controller 24 is connected to U22.
The CPU 22 and the system controller 8 are bidirectionally connected, and a bus 26 is derived from the CPU 22.

Then, the reproduction data from the CD-ROM reproduction circuit 6 is sent to the bus 26, and the RAMs 32 and 3 are sent to the bus 26 via the video controllers 28 and 30, respectively.
4 is connected. Furthermore, the system RO is connected to the bus 26.
An M36 and a non-volatile RAM 38 for backup are bidirectionally connected, and an audio decoder 40 is connected to the bus 26.

The image data of the data reproduced by the CD-ROM reproducing circuit 6 is supplied to the video controllers 28 and 30 under the control of the CPU 22, and the video controllers 28 and 30 generate the image data based on the image data. A video signal is formed. This video signal is supplied to the video synthesizer 42, and in the video synthesizer 42,
The video signal from the video controller 28 and the video signal from the video controller 30 are combined. Also,
The output of the video synthesizer 42 is supplied to the LCD display 19 via the LCD drive circuit 44, and L
The LCD display switch 4 drives the CD display 19.
It can be turned on / off by 8.

Further, of the data reproduced by the CD-ROM reproducing circuit 6, audio data is supplied to the audio decoder 40 under the control of the CPU 22, and when the audio data is ADPCM, the audio decoder 40 performs ADPCM. Is decoded. Also, the decoded audio data is sent to the DA converter 50.
Is supplied to the headphone output terminal 5, is converted into an analog signal, is output from the headphone output terminal 5 via the low-pass filter 52 and the amplifier 54, and can be set by the volume adjusting dial 56.

Here, a modem (modulator / demodulator) 200 is connected to the bus 26 via a serial I / 0 (input / output device) 100.
Is provided, and the modem 200 is configured to be capable of mutual communication with another CD-I player via the communication line 300.

That is, as can be understood from FIG. 6, a plurality of CD-I players (three in this example) a, b, and c equipped with the modem 200 are connected by the communication network 400, respectively. It is possible to perform mutual communication with the CD-I players a, b, and c. The communication network 400 may be, for example, a communication cable or a telephone line. In such a system, a competitive game using a communication cable and a CAI (computer-assis) using a telephone line are used.
ted instruction) and correspondence courses.

In addition, for example, a CD is provided in each of the headquarters and the branch.
-By providing the I-player to the CD-I software of the headquarters to prepare the materials, the CD-I player of the branch (terminal) can communicate with the headquarters and transfer the materials to the branch (for example, Electronic library, electronic museum, electronic newspaper)

As described above, in this embodiment, the CD
Since the modem 200 is built in each of the I players a, b, and c, the CD-I players a, b, and
Mutual communication can be performed between c. Therefore, there is an advantage that the applicable range of the CD-I player becomes wider.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but can be widely applied without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0040]

As can be understood from the above description, since the disk reproducing apparatus according to the present invention has a built-in modem, mutual communication can be performed between the disk reproducing apparatuses having the built-in modem. There is an advantage that the range of application of the disc reproducing device is expanded.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a preferred embodiment of a disc reproducing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of form 1.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of Form 2.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a subheader.

FIG. 5 is a system block diagram showing an electrical configuration.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a used system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Player Main Body 3 CD 13,15 Trigger Button 17 XY Device 200 Modem 300 Communication Line

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A disk reproducing apparatus for reproducing a disk in which a video signal and an audio signal are recorded on the same track, and a modem for performing mutual communication with another disk reproducing apparatus via a communication line. A disc reproducing device characterized by being provided.