JPH06131665A - Image reproducing device and its optical disk - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain an image reproducing device automatically continuously reproducing image data recorded on a disk with simple operation. CONSTITUTION:A CD-1 player 10 is started, and a disk drive mechanism 16 is controlled by the control circuit 28 of the CD-1 player 10, and CD-1 software is read out. By the control circuit 28, procedure data for reproducing the image data recorded on the disk 12 by a prescribed procedure is generated based on the read out CD-1 software, and the generated procedure data is stored in an NVRAM 22. When the CD-1 player 10 is started in the state that the procedure data is stored in the NVRAM 22, by the control circuit 28, the procedure data is read out from the NVRAM 22, and the image data recorded on the disk 12 is read out successively based on the read out procedure data. The read out image data is converted into display data for display, and further, is converted into an analog RGB signals in a display control circuit 20 and outputted to a monitor 14.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a reproducing apparatus for reading out image data representing an image recorded on an information recording medium and displaying the image represented by the image data on a display device such as a display, and more particularly to a compact disc. The present invention relates to an image reproducing apparatus for reproducing image data recorded on an optical disk such as the above and an optical disk thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, a reproducing apparatus such as a CD-I player is known in which a CD-I disk on which an enormous amount of data such as image data is recorded is read out.

When such a CD-I player is turned on, it reads the program recorded on the CD-I disc, and based on the read program, character data and the like recorded on the CD-I disc. Make it possible to display an image representing image data etc. on the screen of the display, or select a button representing a function or command in this program from the screen with an image position pointing device such as a mouse to perform a predetermined operation. Became. This allows the operator to
The CD-I player can advance the screen as if interacting with the screen displayed on the display.

Recently, an image formed on a photographic film or the like is read by an image input device such as a scanner, and the obtained image data is written on a CD-R (writable compact disc). There is known a photo CD system in which a dedicated photo CD player or a CD-I player is mounted and played back to display an image represented by image data recorded on a CD-R on a display device such as a television receiver. This Photo CD system uses a CD-R disc (Photo CD
Disc) is a system based on the CD-I standard that can be written to. As a result, a high-quality image represented by high-resolution image data can be easily displayed on the screen of a home-use television receiver.

It is desirable to install a display device for displaying the video signal output from the image reproducing device and the image device in a store or the like, and sequentially display introduction images of the company's products or services on the display screen. There is a request. For example, as a method of displaying such an introduction image, there is a case where an image is recorded on a video tape and the image is reproduced on a video tape deck. However, in the case of a video tape, it is not possible to capture and record a product with high image quality, and therefore, there is a limit in accurately reproducing the quality of the product, for example.

Therefore, image data representing a product or the like is recorded on a Photo CD disc, and the image data is reproduced, for example, to display the image of the product or the like on a display device installed at a store with high image quality. Can be effectively performed.

[0007]

However, the above-mentioned image reproducing apparatus cannot automatically perform continuous image reproduction of images after the power is turned on. In this case, the photo
When the power of the CD player is turned on, the CD-I software recorded on the Photo CD disc, for example, for converting the data format with the CD-I disc is read, and this CD is loaded.
-Photo CD player is started based on the control of I software. Then, after the Photo CD player is activated, it is necessary to make settings for continuously displaying the images represented by the image data on the display device, which is inconvenient for a person who is not particularly familiar with the operation.

Further, when the images are not set to be continuously reproduced, there is a problem that the same image is displayed for a long time in an exhibition, a product introduction, etc., and the screen of the display device is burned. It was This image sticking occurs remarkably when a still image is displayed on a display device.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art and to provide an image reproducing apparatus and its optical disc.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention reproduces an optical disc on which image data is recorded and displays the image data designated by an input means for selecting the image data. In an image reproducing apparatus that outputs the image represented by the image data to a display apparatus such as a display apparatus, the apparatus reads out the image data recorded in the image data area of the optical disc and reads out the image data. Read-out means for reading out control information for performing the control from the control information area of the optical disk, and data conversion for converting an image represented by the image data read out by the read-out means into a video signal for displaying on the screen of the display device. Unit and the control information read by the reading unit, the image data recorded on the optical disc is reproduced in a predetermined procedure. Setting means for setting a reproducing procedure for storing, a storing means for storing the reproducing procedure set by the setting means, a reproducing procedure stored in the storing means, and a reading means based on the reproducing procedure. The reading means reads the image data stored in the disc under the control of the procedure controlling means which detects the reproducing procedure.

In this case, the apparatus includes a time measuring means for measuring a predetermined time based on the reproduction procedure detected by the procedure control means, and the setting means reads the procedure control means based on the reproduction procedure. The start time until the control of the means is started is set in the reproduction procedure, and when the start time set by the setting means has elapsed, the procedure control means controls the reading means based on the reproduction procedure, and the reading means The image data recorded on the optical disc may be read under the control of the procedure control means.

In this case, the apparatus further includes input detection means for detecting the operation state of the input means while the read means is reading the image data recorded on the optical disc under the control of the procedure control means, and the time measurement is performed. The means may restart the measurement of the predetermined time when the input detecting means detects the operation state of the input means during the measurement of the predetermined time.

Further, the setting means may set a reproduction procedure for continuously reading out the image data recorded in the image data area of the optical disc.

Further, the setting means may set a reproduction procedure for reading the image data recorded in the image data area of the optical disc at a predetermined reading interval.

The optical disc may be a CD-I disc based on the compact disc standard.

Further, in an optical disc having an area for recording image data, which is mounted on a reproducing device for reproducing an image represented by the image data recorded on the optical disc and from which the image data is read, the optical disc is an optical disc. , A control area for recording control information for reproducing the image data, and in the control area, at least a reproducing procedure for automatically reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc by the reproducing apparatus. And control information for reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc based on the reproduction procedure set in the reproducing apparatus.

In this case, the reproducing procedure may be a procedure of continuously reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc by the reproducing device.

[0018]

According to the image reproducing apparatus and the optical disc thereof of the present invention, the reading means reads the image data and the control information for performing the reading control for reading the image data from the optical disc. The setting means sets the reproduction procedure of the image data based on the control information read by the reading means, and the storage means stores the set reproduction procedure.
The procedure control means controls the reading means based on the reproduction procedure stored in the storage means. The reading means reads the image data based on the reproduction procedure.

[0019]

Embodiments of the image reproducing apparatus according to the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment of a CD-I player 10 to which the image reproducing apparatus of the present invention is applied. The CD-I player 10 mounts the disk 12 in which the image data is written, reads the control information and the image data recorded on the disk 12, and displays the image represented by the image data on the monitor 14. This is an information reproducing device. The CD-I player 10 has a disc 12 mounted therein, a disc drive mechanism 16 for reading information recorded on the disc 12, a decoder 18 for decoding a signal from the disc drive mechanism 16 and converting it into image data, and a monitor. A display processing circuit 20 for connecting 14 to process image data of an image to be displayed on this monitor 14, an NVRAM 22 for storing information for the operation of the CD-I player 10, and an input device such as a mouse 24 are connected. Control for controlling the input I / F 26 for converting a signal indicating the operation state into position data and each part of the CD-I player 10, and particularly for performing read control for reading the image data recorded on the disc 12. And a circuit 28.

The disk drive mechanism 16 mounts and rotates the disk 12, irradiates pits formed on the recording surface of the disk 12 with laser light, and detects the amount of reflected light to record on the disk 12. It is a reading device for reading information. As the disc 12, for example, a CD-I disc satisfying the CD-I standard and a CD-R disc (photo CD) are advantageously used, and in this embodiment, a CD-R disc (photo C
D) is shown. Recording area 200 of this disc 12
For example, as shown in FIG. 2, a TOC area 202 in which the contents recorded on the disk 12 are recorded, a directory area 204 in which each function file is stored, and image data in which data such as image data is recorded. A region 206 is formed. In particular, the directory area 204 includes a CD-I area 208 in which CD-I software is recorded, and also the image data area.
206 is an area # 1 to which image data for each frame is written
# 100 and an area INDEX in which image data representing an image in which the image data recorded in these areas # 1 to # 100 is reduced and arranged is written.

The CD-I software in this embodiment is the CD
-The Photo CD disc on which the I software is recorded includes a conversion program to be reproduced by the CD-I player. For example,
This conversion program converts the image data format in Photo CD (photoYCC) to the image data format in CD-I (DeltaYUV)
And a conversion program for converting the pixel aspect ratio. Also, CD-I software, for example,
It includes data representing an image to be displayed on the monitor 14 shown in FIGS. 4 to 6 and a control program for selecting a button displayed on this screen and processing the selected information. here,
The screen displayed on the monitor 14 will be described in detail. The monitor screen 400 shown in FIG. 4 is a menu screen first displayed on the screen of the monitor 14 after the power of the CD-I player 10 is turned on. The top 402 of this monitor screen 400 has a disc
The image represented by the index image data recorded in the 12 areas INDEX is displayed. Up and down arrow buttons 406a and 406b for scrolling these index images in the vertical direction of the screen and the displayed image are edited in the lower part 404 thereof. Edit button 408 for editing and CD-I player 10
An environment setting button 410 for displaying a screen for setting the image data reproducing method when the power of the computer is turned on, and an end button 412 for ending the menu screen are displayed. The image represented by the index image data is not shown in the figure in order to avoid complication of the figure.

The monitor screen 500 shown in FIG. 5 is an environment setting screen displayed after the environment setting button 410 is selected on the monitor screen 400 shown in FIG. A little below the center of the monitor screen 500, the CD-I player 10
ON button 502 and OFF button 50 that turn on / off the settings for automatically playing back image data when the power is turned on
4 is displayed, and up and down arrow buttons 506a and 506b for setting the start time (T) in the case of continuously reproducing image data are displayed on the right side thereof. Further, a display area 508 for displaying a number representing the start time (T) is arranged between the up and down arrow buttons 506a and 506b. In addition, the lower part of the monitor screen 500 is for instructing these settings.
OK button 510 and cancel the contents set on the screen and
Cancel button to display screen 400 shown in
512 and a swap disk button 514 to replace the disk 12 are displayed.

Further, the monitor screen 600 shown in FIG.
6 is a detailed setting screen of an environment setting screen displayed after the OK button 510 is selected on the monitor screen 500 shown in FIG. At the top of the monitor screen 600, up and down arrow buttons 606a and 602b for setting the display interval for each frame of image data when continuously reproducing the image data are displayed, and the image data is displayed at almost the center of the monitor screen. A round button 604, a reverse button 605, and a one-way button 605 for setting the reproduction order (direction) of image data when continuously reproducing images are displayed. Round button 604
Is, for example, image data # 1 ~
Set to play # 100 continuously in sequence. In addition, the reverse button 605 plays back the image data # 1 to # 100 sequentially,
Next, the image data # 100 to # 1 are reproduced in this order and the setting is repeated. Further, the one-way button 605 is set to sequentially reproduce each frame of the image data # 1 to # 100 once. At the bottom of the monitor screen 600, an OK button 608 for registering the setting contents of these detailed setting screens of the environment setting screen in the CD-I player 10, and a cancel button for displaying the monitor screen 500 shown in FIG. 610 is displayed.

Returning to FIG. 1, the disk drive mechanism 16 reads the information recorded on the disk 12 and outputs the read signal thus read to its output 30. Further, the disk drive mechanism 16 has a function of receiving a control signal (not shown) from the control circuit 28 and reading data according to the control from the disk 12. The output 30 of the disk drive 16 is connected to the decoder 18.

The decoder 18 is a conversion circuit that converts the read signal read by the disk drive mechanism 16 into a digital signal and transfers the digital signal. The decoder 18 has a function of expanding the compressed and recorded image data and outputting it to the output 32 thereof. The output 32 of the decoder 18 is connected to the bus 34. When the disk drive mechanism 16 reads the read signal representing the audio signal, the decoder 18 preferably converts the read signal into an analog audio signal.

The display control circuit 20 is a circuit for converting the image data appearing on the bus 34 into a video signal for displaying on the monitor 14 and displaying the image represented by the image data on the monitor 14. Explaining the display control circuit 20 in more detail, the display control circuit 20 includes an access controller 36, a RAM 38 for storing image data, and a display data processing circuit 40.

The access controller 36 takes in the image data appearing on the bus 34, writes the image data in the RAM 38 connected via the memory bus 42, reads the image data stored in the RAM 38, and outputs it at its output 44. It is a memory controller for sending to the connected display data processing circuit 40. The access controller 36 controls the writing or reading of the RAM 38 according to the control command from the control circuit 28.

The RAM 38 is a frame memory that stores image data. Under the control of the access controller 36, the RAM 38 stores the image data transferred from the access controller 36 and displayed on the memory bus 42, and also sends the stored image data to the access controller 36 via the memory bus 42. have.

The display data processing circuit 40 monitors the image data sent from the output 44 of the access controller 36 by the monitor 14.
It is a conversion circuit for converting into a video signal adapted to the signal input format of. The display data processing circuit 40, for example, converts the image data into an analog RGB signal and outputs it to its output 46. The monitor 14 is connected to the output 44 of the display data processing circuit 40.

The NVRAM 22 is a non-volatile RAM that stores environment setting data set in the environment setting. Particularly in this embodiment, the NVRAM 22 stores the procedure data for automatic continuous reproduction selected based on the CD-I software recorded in the CD-I area 208 of the disc 12. The NVRAM 22 is connected to the control circuit 28 via the bus 34.

The mouse 24 is an image position pointing device that detects an operation direction and generates an output corresponding to the operation direction and the operation speed. The mouse 24 generates a Y pulse signal corresponding to the upper and lower sides of the operation direction and an X pulse signal corresponding to the left and right sides according to the operation state, and outputs it to its output 48. Further, the mouse 24 has a function of outputting a selection signal for selecting a function displayed on the screen to its output 48, for example.

The input I / F 26 is an interface circuit for detecting the Y pulse signal, the X pulse signal and the selection signal, which appear at the input 48 thereof and which represents the operation state of the mouse 24, and outputs the data representing these signals to its output 50. Is. input
The output of the I / F 26 is connected to the control circuit 28 via the bus 34.

The control circuit 28 is a control circuit for controlling each part of the CD-I player 10. The control circuit 28 is composed of, for example, a computer circuit including a microprocessor,
It has a function of performing a control operation based on a basic control program for driving the microprocessor. This basic control program is stored in a ROM (read-only memory) (not shown) provided in the control circuit 28, for example. The control circuit 28 generates control commands for controlling the disk drive mechanism 16, the decoder 18, and the display control circuit 20, respectively. The control circuit 28 is a CD-I of the disk 12.
It has a function of reading the CD-I software recorded in the area 208 and performing a control for reading the image data recorded in the disk 12 based on the read CD-I software. The image data is converted into the image data format (DelaYUV) in Photo CD and the pixel aspect ratio. Further, the control circuit 28 has a function of generating procedure data representing a procedure for reading image data based on the CD-I software and writing the procedure data in the NVRAM 22. Further, the control circuit 28, for example,
When the procedure data is stored in the NVRAM 22 when the power is turned on, it has a function of controlling the reading of the image data recorded on the disk 12 based on the procedure data stored in the NVRAM 22. .

The control circuit 28 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3. A functional block diagram of the control circuit 28 is shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the control circuit 28 includes a reading unit 30.
0, an input detection unit 302, a screen control unit 304, a display control unit 306, a procedure control unit 308, and a time management unit 310.

The reading section 300 is a functional section that controls the disk start-up mechanism 16 to perform control for reading the data recorded on the disk 12. The reading unit 300 is a screen control unit.
Based on the button selection information notified from 304, the image data recorded in the image data area 206 of the disc 12 is read and transferred to the screen control unit 304. The reading unit 300
Under the control of the procedure control unit 308, the CD-I software recorded in the CD-I area 208 of the disk 12 is read out, and this CD-I
Image data representing each of the monitor screen 400 (menu screen), monitor screen 500 (environment setting screen) and monitor screen 600 (detail setting screen) included in the software is stored in the procedure controller 30.
It is transferred to the screen control unit 304 under the control of 8. Further, the reading unit 300 receives the control of the procedure control unit 308 described later,
It has a function of reading the image data recorded in the image data area 206 of the disk 12 in a predetermined procedure.

The input detection unit 302 is a functional unit that detects the data transferred from the output 50 of the input I / F 26. The input detection unit 302 detects data representing each of the X and Y pulse signals generated by the mouse 24, generates position data representing the position of the cursor, and notifies the screen control unit 304 of the position data. In addition, the input detection unit 302 detects that the mouse 24 has been operated and notifies the time management unit 310 of the detected state. Further, the input detection unit 302 detects the data representing the selection signal generated by the mouse 24, and the screen control unit 304
Notify the select command.

The screen control unit 304 is a functional unit that transfers the image data transferred from the reading unit 300 to the display control unit 306. The screen control unit 304 transfers the image data recorded in the image data area 206 of the disc 12 and the image data recorded in the CD-I area 208 transferred from the reading unit 300 to the display control unit 306. In addition, the screen control unit 304
Data representing an image of a cursor for indicating the position of the screen displayed on the monitor 14 is generated, and cursor data for displaying the cursor at the position of the screen based on the position data notified from the input detection unit 302 is generated. To generate. The screen control unit 304 displays the generated cursor data in the display control unit 306.
Send to. Further, the screen control unit 304 has a CD-I area 208.
The button information for selecting a function is extracted from the data representing the respective screens recorded in step S1, and the state where the position represented by the generated cursor data is at the position of the button for selecting this function is detected. The screen control unit 304
When the selection command from the input detection unit 302 is detected in this state, it is recognized that the function button is selected. The screen control unit 304 notifies the procedure control unit 308 of the recognized button selection information.

Specifically, the screen control unit 304 displays the environment setting button 410 while the monitor screen 400 is displayed.
When is selected by the cursor, image data for displaying the monitor screen 500 is sent to the display control unit 306. Further, when the image of one frame represented by the index image data displayed on the upper portion 402 of the monitor screen 400 is selected, the screen control unit 304 reads out the selected image data.
Notify 0. In addition, the screen control unit 304 displays the monitor screen 50
When 0 is displayed, the on / off information of the automatic continuous reproduction selected by the cursor on the screen and the time information of the start time are recognized. Furthermore, the screen control unit 304
When the OK button 510 is selected with the cursor, the monitor screen
The image data for displaying 600 is sent to the display control unit 306, and when the cancel button 512 is selected by the cursor, the image data for displaying the monitor screen 400 is sent to the display control unit 306. In this case, the screen control unit 30
When recognizing that the OK button 510 has been selected by the cursor, 4 displays the button selection information representing the function button selected and recognized on the monitor screens 500 and 600 in the procedure control unit.
Notify 308.

The display control unit 306 is a functional unit that converts the image data sent from the screen control unit 304 and the cursor data generated by the screen control unit 304 into display data for displaying on the monitor 14. The display control unit 304 uses the generated display data as the access controller of the display control circuit 20.
Send to 36. Specifically, the display control circuit 306 is shown in FIG.
~ As shown in Figure 6, monitor screens 400, 500 and 600
Display data representing each of the above is generated. Note that the cursor for selecting buttons in these figures is not shown in order to prevent the figures from becoming complicated. In addition, the display control unit 30
Reference numeral 6 has a function of converting the data format and the pixel aspect ratio of the image data transferred from the reading section 300.

The procedure control unit 308 is a functional unit that controls the reading unit 300 to read the image data recorded in the image data area 206 of the disk 12 in a predetermined procedure. The procedure control unit 308, based on the button selection information from the screen control unit 304, displays the screens 400 to 600 corresponding to the selected button.
Is sent to the reading unit 300. When the screen control unit 304 notifies the button selection information at the time of setting the environment, the procedure control unit 308 generates the procedure data according to the button selection information, and the generated procedure data is stored in the NVRAM 22.
To be stored in. For example, the procedure control unit 308 generates the procedure data for setting the order in which the reading unit 300 reads the image data based on the button selection information notified from the screen control unit 304 while the monitor screen 400 is displayed. To do.
The procedure control unit 308 writes the generated procedure data in the NVRAM 22. Further, the procedure control unit 308 detects that the procedure data is stored in the NVRAM 22 when the CD-I player 10 is activated, and in that case, controls the reading unit 300 based on the detected procedure data, and the disc 12 Image data recorded in
The CD-I player 10 has a function of performing procedural control for continuous automatic reproduction from the start-up. In addition, the procedure control unit 30
When detecting that the procedure data is stored in the NVRAM 22, 8 notifies the time management unit 310 of the start time (T) set in the procedure data.

The time management unit 310 uses the input detection unit 302 based on the start time (T) notified from the procedure control unit 308.
It is a functional unit that manages the time of the data notified from. The time management unit 310 is a procedure control unit when the NVRAM 22 stores procedure data for continuous reproduction of image data.
Upon receiving the notification of the start time (T) from 308, it manages from the time when the CD-I player 10 is started to this start time (T). More specifically, the time management unit 310 notifies the procedure control unit 308 when the start time (T) notified from the procedure control unit 308 has elapsed, so that the procedure control unit 302 can automatically and continuously reproduce image data. Control is started. At this time, when the input detection unit 302 detects a change in the data indicating the operation state of the mouse, the time management unit 310 manages from the time of the detection to the start time (T). In other words, the time management unit 310 measures the time from the latest mouse operation to the start time (T), and when this time exceeds the start time (T), controls the procedure for automatic continuous playback. Let 308 start. The time management unit 310 ends the time management when the automatic continuous reproduction of the image data is started. Further, the time management unit 310 monitors the data indicating the operation state of the mouse from the input detection unit 302 during the automatic continuous reproduction, and the mouse 24 is operated during the continuous reproduction to monitor the data.
It has a function to newly start time management when the 14 display screens are changed to the monitor screen 400. Furthermore, the time management unit 310
Has a function of notifying the procedure control unit 308 of the timing indicating the read interval at the time of reading each image data in the continuous reproduction of the image data.

The operation of the CD-I player 10 having the above structure will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 5 to 8. Referring to FIG. 7, there is shown an operation flow in the case where environment setting data for automatic continuous reproduction is already set in the CD-I player 10. In step 700 of the figure, the CD
-The power of the I-player 10 is turned on, and the power is supplied to each part of the CD-I player 10. When power is supplied to the control circuit 22, the reading section 300 of the control circuit 22 outputs a control signal to the disk drive mechanism 16 to record on each recording area 200 of the disk 12 mounted on the disk drive mechanism 16. Read the information that has been written. Particularly, the control circuit 28 is the CD-I area of the disk 12.
Read the CD-I software recorded on the 208. When the CD-I software is read, the reading unit 300 controls the disk drive mechanism 16 based on the read CD-I information.

Next, in step 702, the procedure control unit 30
8 reads the procedure data for automatic continuous playback of the environment setting data stored in NVRAM22, and executes step 704
Proceed to. In step 704, the procedure control unit 308 determines that the NV
If the automatic continuous playback is set to ON in the procedure data read from RAM22, proceed to step 706, and the automatic continuous playback setting is recorded as OFF, or the procedure data is recorded in the environment setting data. If not, proceed to step 800 shown in FIG.

At step 706 in which the setting of automatic continuous reproduction is turned on in the NVRAM 22, the start time (T) set in the procedure data is notified from the procedure control unit 308 to the time management unit 310, and this start is started. Time measurement up to time (T) is started by the time management unit 310.

In step 710, the image data representing the monitor screen 400 is transferred from the reading unit 300 to the screen control unit 304 based on the CD-I software read by the reading unit 300. The image format transferred to the display control unit 306 is converted in data format and pixel aspect ratio, and further transferred to the display control circuit 20. The image data input to the display control circuit 20 is stored in the RAM 20 by the access controller 36.
The image data written in the RAM 38 and stored in the RAM 38 is read by the access controller 36 and sent to the display data processing circuit 40. Image data is a display data processing circuit
The analog RGB signal is converted at 40, the converted analog RGB signal is output to the monitor 14, and the monitor screen 400 is displayed on the screen of the monitor 14.

Next, in step 712, the time management unit 31
At 0, the mouse 24 is operated while the time is being measured, data representing the operation state is detected by the input detection unit 302, and the time management unit 310 is notified. When the time management unit 310 is notified of the data indicating the operation state of the mouse, the time measurement up to that point is completed, and the time measurement from this time to the start time (T) set in the environment settings is newly added. Be started. If the mouse 24 is not operated at all during these time measurements, return to step 712 and monitor screen 40
0 is continuously displayed on the monitor 14 screen. The time management unit 310 measures the time, and when the start time (T) set in the environment setting has elapsed, the process proceeds to step 714. In other words, in step 712, the no-operation time of the mouse 24
If (t) exceeds the start time (T), proceed to step 714.

In step 714, the procedure data stored in the NVRAM 22 is read by the procedure control unit 308, and the procedure control unit 308 determines, based on the read procedure data,
It controls the reading unit 300. The reading unit 300 includes a procedure control unit 308.
Under the control of the disk drive mechanism 16 to control the image data # 1 to # 1 recorded in the image data area 206 of the disk 12.
# 100 is read by the reproduction procedure based on the procedure data. Further, the procedure control unit 308 indicates that this continuous reproduction is being performed.
Is notified to the time management unit 310. As a result, the read image data is continuously reproduced. Next, in step 716, in the input detection unit 302, the operation state of the mouse 24 indicating that the mouse 24 has been operated is indicated by the time management unit 310.
Will be notified. When this operation state is notified to the time management unit 310, the process returns to step 708. If the mouse 24 is not operated, the process returns to step 714 and the continuous reproduction is continued.

Next, the operation of registering the environment setting data for automatic continuous reproduction of image data in the CD-I player 10 will be described below. Referring to FIG. 8, there is shown an operation flow when the NVRAM 22 of the CD-I player 10 does not store environment setting data for automatic continuous reproduction. This operation flow continues from step 704 shown in FIG. 7, and proceeds to step 800 in FIG. 8 when the setting of automatic continuous playback is recorded as OFF or when the procedure data is not recorded in the environment setting data.

In step 800, image data representing the monitor screen 400 (menu screen) is displayed on the screen controller 304 based on the CD-I software read by the reader 300 as in step 710 shown in FIG. To the display control circuit 20. The image data input to the display control circuit 20 is RA-controlled by the access controller 36.
It is stored in M38, read out, and sent to the display data processing circuit 40. The image data is converted into an analog RGB signal by the display data processing circuit 40 and output to the monitor 14. A monitor screen 400 represented by the analog RGB signal is displayed on the screen of the monitor 14.

Next, in step 802, the input detector 80
At 2, the operating state of the mouse 24 is detected. Data representing the state where the mouse 24 is operated is sent to the output 50 of the input I / F 26, and this is detected by the input detection unit 302. Position data representing the position of the cursor is generated from the data detected by the input detection unit 302 and is notified to the screen control unit 304. When the data representing the operated state of the mouse 24 is detected by the input detection unit 302, the process proceeds to step 804, and when this data is not detected by the input detection unit 302, that is, when the mouse 24 is not operated, Returning to step 800, the monitor screen 400 is continuously displayed on the display 14.

In step 804 when the mouse 24 is operated, the position data of the cursor is notified to the screen control unit 304, and the mouse 24 is operated so that the cursor is displayed on the environment setting button 410 of the monitor screen 400. . At this time, when the selection signal is output from the mouse 24, it is detected by the input detection unit 302 and the selection command is notified to the screen control unit 304. When the screen control unit 304 is notified of this selection command, the procedure control unit 308 is notified of button selection information indicating that the environment setting button 410 has been selected, and step 806 is performed.
Proceed to. Further, for example, when the image (not shown) displayed on the screen 402 is selected, the process proceeds to step 816.

In step 806, the environment setting button 41
When the button selection information indicating that 0 has been selected is notified to the procedure control unit 308, the reading unit 300 displays the monitor screen 500.
An instruction to display the (environment setting screen) is sent. Next, the image data representing the monitor screen 500 is sent from the reading unit 300 to the screen control unit 304, and the input detection unit 302
Display control unit 306 together with the cursor data notified from
Sent to. These data sent to the display control unit 306 are converted into display data and sent to the display control circuit 20 and converted into analog RGB signals. The analog RGB signal is output to the output 46 of the display control circuit 20 and transferred to the monitor 14, and the monitor screen 500 is displayed on the screen of the monitor 14.
On this screen 500, the cursor moves on the screen according to the operation of the mouse 24, and the ON button placed on the monitor screen 500
An input detection unit 302 in which 502 represents a selection signal from the mouse 24
The start time (T) is selected by the selection command from and the up and down arrow buttons 506a and 506b are operated.
Is selected.

Next, in step 808, the monitor screen 500
If the OK button 510 is selected with, the process proceeds to step 810, and if the cancel button 512 is selected, the process proceeds to step 800.
Returning to, the monitor screen 400 is displayed on the screen of the monitor 14.

When the OK button 510 is selected and the process proceeds to step 810, in step 810, the image data representing the monitor screen 600 (detailed setting screen) is sent from the reading section 300 to the screen display section 304, and finally. A monitor screen 600 represented by this image data is displayed on the screen of the monitor 14. The cursor moves on the monitor screen 600 according to the operation of the mouse 24, the up and down arrow buttons 602a and 602b arranged on the monitor screen 600 are selected to specify the interval time, and the ON button 502 is pressed. The start time (T) is designated by the selection command from the input detection unit 302, which represents a selection signal from the mouse 24, and by operating the up and down arrow buttons 506a and 506b. Further, any one of the round button 604, the reverse button 605, and the one-way button 605 is selected to specify the reproduction order of the image data, and the process proceeds to step 812.

When the OK button 608 is selected on the monitor screen 600 in step 812, the process proceeds to step 814, and when the cancel button 610 is selected, step 80
Returning to 6, the monitor screen 500 is displayed on the monitor 14 screen.

In step 814 when the OK button 608 is selected, the procedure control unit 308 is notified of the button selection information indicating the contents selected in steps 806 and 810. The procedure control unit 308 is notified of the button selection information, and the procedure data corresponding to the notified button selection information is generated. For example, the selection button information notified to the procedure control unit 308 indicates that automatic continuous playback is on and the start time is
When (T) is 5 minutes, the interval time is 10 seconds, and the direction represents a round, if the mouse 24 is not operated for 5 minutes from step 708 shown in FIG. 7, the image data recorded on the disk 12 # The procedure control unit 308 generates procedure data for successively reproducing each of frames 1 to # 100 every 10 seconds. The generated procedure data is sent to NVRAM22, and this procedure data is stored in NVRAM22. When the power of the CD-I player 10 is turned off once and then turned on again with the procedure data stored in the NVRAM 22, the operations from step 700 to step 706 shown in FIG. 7 are started. It

When the image (not shown) displayed on the screen 402 is selected in step 804, step 81
In step 816, the screen control unit 304 notifies the reading unit 300 of the selected image data, and the reading unit 300 sends the selected image data to the disc.
It is read from 12 and transferred to the screen control unit 304.

Next, in step 818, the screen control unit
The image data transferred to 304 is converted into display data by the display control unit 306 and output to the display control circuit 20.
The display data is converted into an analog RGB signal by the display control circuit 20 and input to the display 14, and the image represented by this data is displayed on the screen.

As described above, the control circuit 28 controls the NVRAM2
It detects that the mouse 24 is not operated within the preset start time (T) based on the procedure data set for automatic continuous playback stored in 2, and in that case, the image data based on the procedure data is detected. Play continuously. In this case, if the procedure data is registered in the CD-I player 10 in advance, the continuous reproduction of the image data can be executed only by turning on the power of the CD-I player 10.

In this embodiment, the disk 12 on which the image data is recorded is the CD-R disk of the photo CD, but the present invention is not limited to this, and any optical disk to which the present invention is applied can be used. Good.

[0061]

As described above, according to the image data reproducing apparatus and the optical disc thereof according to the present invention, the procedure setting means controls the reading means based on the reproducing procedure stored in the storage means, and the reading means, Since the image data recorded on the optical disc is read under the control of the procedure setting means,
For example, the image data recorded on the optical disk can be reproduced by simply turning on the power of the image reproducing apparatus. In this case, further, since this apparatus has the storage means for storing the reproduction procedure set by the setting means, it is possible to reproduce the image data without interposing the input means. As a result, the image data recorded on the optical disk can be automatically read out based on this reproduction procedure, and the image represented by this image data can be displayed on the display device. As a result, there is an excellent effect that the image data recorded on the optical disk can be automatically continuously reproduced only by starting the image reproducing apparatus.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a CD-I player to which an image reproducing device according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a recording area of a disc in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing a control circuit in this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a monitor screen 400 in this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a monitor screen 500 in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a monitor screen 600 in this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an operation flow during automatic continuous reproduction in this embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an operation flow at the time of setting an environment in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 CD-I player 10 12 Disk 14 Monitor 16 Disk drive 18 Decoder 20 Display control circuit 22 NVRAM 24 Mouse 26 Input I / F 28 Control circuit 36 Access controller 38 RAM 40 Display data processing circuit

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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An optical disk on which image data is recorded is reproduced, and image data designated by an input means for selecting the image data is output to a display device such as a display to display an image represented by the image data. In an image reproducing device to be displayed on a display device, the device reads control information for reading out image data recorded in an image data area of the optical disc and reading control for reading the image data from the control information region of the optical disc. Reading means for reading, data converting means for converting an image represented by the image data read by the reading means into a video signal for displaying on the screen of the display device, and control read by the reading means Setting means for setting a reproduction procedure for reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc in a predetermined procedure based on information; Storage means for storing the reproduction procedure set by the setting means, and procedure control means for detecting the reproduction procedure stored in the storage means and controlling the reading means based on the reproduction procedure, An image reproducing apparatus, wherein the reading means reads the image data stored in the disc under the control of the procedure control means that detects the reproduction procedure. 2. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus includes a time measuring unit that measures a predetermined time based on the reproduction procedure detected by the procedure control unit, and the setting unit. Sets the start time until the procedure control means starts control of the reading means in the reproduction procedure based on the reproduction procedure, and the procedure control means sets the start time set by the setting means. When the time has passed, the reading means is controlled based on the reproduction procedure, and the reading means reads the image data recorded on the optical disc under the control of the procedure control means. 3. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the apparatus receives the control of the procedure control unit, and the reading unit reads the image data recorded on the optical disc. The time measuring means includes an input detecting means for detecting an operation state, and the time measuring means restarts the measurement of the predetermined time when the input detecting means detects the operation state of the input means during the measurement of the predetermined time. An image reproducing device characterized by the above. 4. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting means sets a reproducing procedure for continuously reading the image data recorded in the image data area of the optical disc. Image playback device. 5. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the setting means sets a reproducing procedure for reading the image data recorded in the image data area of the optical disc at a predetermined read interval. Characteristic image reproducing device. 6. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the optical disk is a CD-I disk based on the compact disk standard. 7. An optical disc having an area for recording image data, wherein the optical disc is mounted on a reproducing apparatus for reproducing an image represented by the image data recorded on the optical disc and the image data is read out. A control area for recording control information for reproducing image data, wherein the control area has at least a reproduction procedure for automatically reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc by the reproduction device. Control information to be set in the playback device,
An optical disc on which control information for reproducing image data recorded on the optical disc based on the reproduction procedure set in the reproducing device is recorded. 8. The optical disc according to claim 7, wherein
The optical disc is characterized in that the reproducing procedure is a sequence of continuously reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc by the reproducing device.