JPH06349247A - Information recording/reproducing medium and recorder/ player - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an information recording/reproducing medium in which the management of content recorded on the medium and the retrieval/heading thereof are facilitated by recording content information and recording position information being displayed as an image. CONSTITUTION:Externally inputted image signal and voice signal are processed at an image/voice I/O section 3. The input image signal is recorded and held in an image recording/holding section 4. The image signal thus held is then converted at a control section 5, for deciding the information received from the medium to perform an operation or deliver an instruction, into content information and recording position information. Management of recorded content and retrieval thereof are facilitated by recording information on a recording/ reproducing medium 1 through the use of a medium recording/reproducing section 2 for reading/writing information from/onto the recording/reproducing medium.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a medium capable of recording and reproducing information and a recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing the recording and reproducing medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional recording / reproducing medium and a recording / reproducing apparatus for recording / reproducing the recording / reproducing medium will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional recording / reproducing medium and a recording / reproducing apparatus. In FIG. 2, 1 is a medium capable of recording and reproducing information, 6 is a medium recording / reproducing unit for reading and writing image signals and audio signals from the medium 1 capable of recording and reproducing information,
Reference numeral 7 is an image / sound input / output unit for inputting and processing an image and sound from the outside, and 8 is a control unit for judging information and performing an operation or a command.

Next, the operation of the conventional medium capable of recording and reproducing information and the recording / reproducing apparatus having the above-mentioned structure will be described.

FIG. 3 shows a format for recording the cue signal. In FIG. 2, the medium 1 on which information can be recorded and reproduced is read and written by a medium recording / reproducing unit 6 for an image signal and an audio signal. An image / sound input signal input from the outside is processed by the image / sound input / output unit 7, and when a recording command is output to the medium recording / reproducing unit 6 by the control unit 8, a cue signal is output to the control signal area shown in FIG. Is recorded in the record information area of the medium 1 on which information can be recorded and reproduced. At the time of reproduction, cueing at the start of reproduction is performed based on the cueing signal recorded in the control signal area shown in FIG.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, a lot of image / audio information is recorded by the recording / reproducing apparatus on the medium 1 capable of recording and reproducing information.
There is a problem that the user has to manage the contents recorded in the recording / reproducing medium, the order, etc., when locating the desired image / audio information to be reproduced.

In order to deal with this inconvenience, a method is conceivable in which the recorded contents are character-inputted and pasted on a medium capable of magnetic recording on a medium capable of recording and reproducing information. It was difficult to get an exact cue if there was a need and forgot to type.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to reduce the burden on the user as much as possible and improve so that the user can easily find the subject.

[0009]

To achieve this object, a medium capable of recording and reproducing information according to the present invention has index information and recording position information to be displayed as images. The recording / reproducing apparatus also has an image recording / holding unit that holds the image at the start of recording the image / audio input signal input to the image / audio input unit.

[0010]

With the above-described structure of the medium capable of recording and reproducing information of the present invention, management of the recorded contents of the medium capable of recording and reproducing information becomes easy.

With the above-described configuration, the recording / reproducing apparatus of the present invention makes it easy to search and find the recorded content when using it.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a medium capable of recording and reproducing information, 2 is a medium recording / reproducing section for reading and writing image signals and audio signals from the medium 1 capable of recording and reproducing information. An image / sound input / output unit for inputting and processing an image signal and an audio signal from the outside, 4 is an image recording / holding unit for holding an image at the start of recording information, and 5 is a control unit for judging information and performing an operation or a command. Is.

Next, the operation of the medium 1 and the recording / reproducing apparatus capable of recording and reproducing information according to the present invention having the above-mentioned structure will be described.

In FIG. 1, an information recording / reproducing section 2 reads and writes an image signal and an audio signal from a medium 1 capable of recording and reproducing information. An image / sound input signal input from the outside is processed by the image / sound input / output unit 3, and the image signal is transferred to the record holding unit 4. When the control unit 5 outputs a command for recording to the medium recording / reproducing unit 2, the recording position information and the image information at the time of command output are held by the image record holding unit 4, and at the same time, the recording information and the cue signal of FIG. Is recorded. The image information is stored in the image record holding unit 4 each time recording is started. When the control unit 5 outputs to the medium recording / reproducing unit 2 an instruction to take out the medium 1 on which information can be recorded and reproduced, the unrecorded area of the medium 1 on which information can be recorded and reproduced is searched and the image recording and holding unit The recording position information and the image information held in 4 are recorded on the medium 1 on which information can be recorded and reproduced. When the medium 1 capable of recording and reproducing the recorded information in which the recording position information and the image information are recorded by the above method is inserted into the recording / reproducing apparatus, the control unit 5 automatically searches the recording position information and the image information. The contents are read and output from the image / sound input / output unit 3 as the table-of-contents information to be displayed as an image and displayed on the display device. If the target image is selected by an operation command from the table of contents information displayed as an image, it is possible to cue.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the user can easily know the contents recorded on the medium on which information can be recorded and reproduced.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, it becomes easy to manage the recorded contents recorded on a medium capable of recording and reproducing information, and it is possible to easily search at the time of use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a medium capable of recording and reproducing information and a recording / reproducing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a recording / reproducing apparatus in a conventional example.

FIG. 3 is a format diagram of a medium for recording a recording start signal and a cue signal in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 medium capable of recording and reproducing information 2 medium recording / reproducing section 3 image / sound input / output section 4 image recording / holding section 5 control section 6 medium recording / reproducing section 7 image / sound input / output section 8 control section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A recording / reproducing medium for recording and reproducing information, characterized in that, in addition to input image and audio information, table of contents information displayed as an image and recording position information are recorded. A playable medium. 2. A recording / reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information, comprising: a medium capable of recording and reproducing information according to claim 1;
A medium recording / playback unit that reads and writes image signals and audio signals, an image / audio input / output unit that processes image signals and audio signals input from the outside, and image recording that records and holds the input image signals. A recording / reproducing apparatus comprising: a holding unit; and a control unit that determines information from the medium and performs calculations and commands.