KR100568375B1 - Method for displaying available languages supported by the content recorded on a recording Medium - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of displaying a plurality of available languages that can be presented together when playing contents recorded on a recording medium such as a DVD so that a user can conveniently select a desired language. When the recording medium is mounted, it checks the available languages supported by the recording medium, and also checks the country code that is preset in the storage medium. According to the display order, the names of each available language are displayed as individual menu items. By this method, the user can check the available languages of the recording medium as a whole, and also allow the user to quickly identify and select menu items of the desired language.

DVD, language, menu, selection, display, change

Description

Method for displaying available languages supported by the content recorded on a recording medium}

1 shows a typical setup menu screen outputted by a DVD player,

Fig. 2 schematically shows the configuration of a disc player to which a method for displaying available languages of a recording medium according to the present invention is applied.

3 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a method for displaying available languages of a recording medium according to the present invention;

4A and 4B show examples of display of available language menu items displayed and output according to the present invention.

5 illustrates an example in which the available language menu items displayed according to the present invention are visually differentiated from other items by being preliminarily selected.

※ Explanation of code for main part of drawing

10: optical disc 11: optical pickup

12: VDP system 13: control unit

14: OSD part 15: memory

16: mixer

The present invention relates to a method for displaying a plurality of available languages that can be presented together when playing contents recorded on a recording medium such as a DVD so that a user can conveniently select a desired language.

A recording medium that can record and store high-quality video data and high-quality audio data for a long time, for example, a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), contains A / V content such as a movie, and the content is used in different languages. In order to be reproduced in various countries, voices related to the contents are recorded in a plurality of languages or subtitles are recorded in a sub-picture form for a plurality of languages.

In this way, one language should be selected when playing a recording medium having a plurality of available languages recorded therein. In general, a DVD player has a default 'voice' set by a recording medium producer recorded on an attached recording medium. / Subpicture language 'to select the language to use.

However, since this selection may not be the language desired by the user, the user may change the language. This change is mainly made via the setup menu.

However, even if the voice or subtitle of the corresponding language is selected and changed to the desired 'Korean' for the currently mounted disc, the voice or subtitle of a language other than 'Korean' is not displayed when another recording medium is inserted later. Can be expressed.

This is because the identification number of the audio / subpicture stream for each language may be different for each recording medium. For example, when the user selects 'Korean', the audio / subpicture stream number of 'Korean' is '3' in the previous recording medium, and the player sets the audio / subtitle of the language to '3'. In the latter recording medium, if the audio / subpicture stream number is '3', the latter recording audio / subtitle which is not desired by the user is output.

To remedy this problem, when a user sets a language, the player does not set the stream number of the language, but sets the code for the language. Therefore, when the recording medium is played back, the language set by the user is always checked by checking whether there is a language code set in the available language of the recording medium, and presenting the stream number corresponding to the language code together with the recorded contents. Make your voice / subtitles appear.

By the way, even if the language set as described above, the user needs to change it as needed.

To change the language, use the 'Options' item on the setup menu as shown in FIG. 1, or press the 'Language' key during playback to display the next language among the available languages of the current recording medium. If you select it, you can change to the language and set it. Otherwise, press 'Language' key again to display the next language. That is, the available languages are displayed one by one until the user selects a desired language.

However, since the setting of the change of the use language through the setup menu as shown in FIG. 1 is not familiar to the user, the change of the use language is difficult, and the method of displaying the available languages one by one cannot know the available languages at a time, so the user may It is inconvenient to do several key operations until the language appears.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for displaying available languages, which makes it possible to easily check all languages supported by a recording medium as a whole.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method of displaying and ordering available languages so that a user can most conveniently select a desired language among all languages supported by the recording medium.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of displaying available language of a recording medium, the method comprising: identifying available language names supported by a mounted recording medium; Generating a menu item which is individually activated or inverted for each of the identified available languages; And displaying each of the generated menu items on the main image reproduced and outputted from the mounted recording medium.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of displaying available language of a recording medium, the method comprising: checking available language names supported by an attached recording medium; Checking a country code set in the device; And determining the display order of the identified available languages based on the identified country code.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of a method of displaying the available language of the recording medium according to the present invention will be described in detail.

Fig. 2 schematically shows a configuration of a disc player to which a method for displaying available languages of a recording medium according to the present invention is applied.

The disc player of FIG. 2 includes an optical pickup 11 for reading out a signal recorded on an attached disc medium, converts the read signal into a binary signal, and then digitally processes and restores the restored data into management information and After separating the content data, the content data is decoded and output as an A / V signal, and receiving and analyzing the management information, receiving user input, configuring necessary menu screen elements, and A control unit 13 for controlling playback, an OSD unit 14 for receiving the menu screen elements to construct a menu screen, a mixer 16 for superimposing the menu screen and an image signal, and temporarily storing necessary data And a memory 15.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of one embodiment of a method for displaying available languages of a recording medium according to the present invention. Hereinafter, a method for displaying available languages performed in the disc player of FIG. 2 will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When an optical disc 10 such as a DVD is inserted into the disc player of FIG. 2, the control unit 13 performs a series of loading operations for loading the optical disc, and causes the VDP system 12 to lead in the optical disc. The management information recorded in the area or the like is read out, and an initial operation of temporarily storing the information in the memory 15 is performed (S10).

Then, by searching for language codes that can be supported in the management information stored in the memory 15, the languages that can be supported in the mounted optical disc are checked (S11).

If supportable languages are identified, the controller 13 configures a menu item corresponding to each language (S12). Each menu item may consist of a text of a language name specifying the language and a small box image surrounding the text.

Then, the display order of each configured menu item is determined (S13). To this end, the controller 13 checks the country code set in the memory or the external ROM memory (not shown). This country code is a value which is set in advance in order to determine the language displayed on the menu screen at the time of manufacture or sale of the player.

If a country code is identified, the menu item of the language corresponding to that country code is displayed first. The display order of languages may be determined in a country order adjacent to the country code, or languages other than the language determined as the highest priority may be determined based on display order information previously determined and recorded in a memory.

In the latter case, for example, if the predetermined display order is 'English'-'French'-'Espanian'-'German'-'Russian'-'Chinese' Is 'France', the corresponding language 'French' is given first priority, and the display order of menu items is determined by applying the display order excluding this. That is, the display order of the menu items is determined in the order of 'French'-'English'-'Espanian'-'German'-'Russian'-'Chinese'.

When the display order of the language is determined as described above, the display position of the menu item of the language is determined accordingly, and the menu item is sequentially applied to the OSD unit 14 to convey the position information to be displayed. At this time, the positional information may be determined so that the display order is displayed from the left side to the right side of the screen in the earliest order, or from the top to the bottom of the screen.

The OSD unit 14 outputs the input menu items to the mixer 16 according to the location information so that the menu items for each language are displayed on the screen in a predetermined display order (S14).

At this time, when content data is being reproduced from the mounted optical disc 10, the respective menu items are displayed on the background of the main image. Otherwise, a blank image, for example, a single color background screen, is displayed. May be displayed on the screen. In the set-up menu screen, of course, each available language can be displayed as a separate menu item.

4A and 4B show examples of display of menu items for each language displayed on the screen in the same manner as described above. FIG. 4A shows an example displayed from left to right, and FIG. 4B shows an example displayed from top to bottom. As shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, all available languages may not be displayed all at once, and each time a user inputs a 'language' key, the available languages may be displayed one by one according to a predetermined display order.

As described above, when each available language is displayed as a menu item, when the user moves over the menu item through a cursor key or a pointer, the controller 13 highlights one menu item, that is, a preselected item according to the movement information. Or color inversion, visually differentiates it from other menu items as shown in FIG. 5 (S15). The highlight or color inversion of any preselected item may be achieved by applying the highlighted or color inverted text and the small box image to the OSD unit 14. The menu items visually differentiated as above are marked as 'active'.

When a user selects a language by inputting a key such as 'enter' while one menu item is 'active' (S16), the language code connected to the active menu item is 'active language code'. Set to '(S17).

Then, the audio / sub picture stream number corresponding to the language code is set as the temporary stream number, and if the current content data is being played, the stream number is applied to the VDP system 13, and the audio / suspension of the stream number is performed. Causes the picture stream to be decoded and output.

If not currently being played, the temporary stream number is passed to the VDP system 13 to be recorded for future stream decoding.

Thus, together with the video content recorded on the disc recording medium 10, the voice and / or subtitle of the language desired by the user is presented together (S18).

Then, when the user selects and inputs the 'language' key for changing the language again while playing the disc recording medium or while the initial operation is completed (S19), the control unit 13 confirms in advance Based on the information on the available languages, the menu items are reconfigured (S12), the display order thereof is determined (S13), and the menu items for each language are displayed on the screen according to the determined display order (S14). In the same manner as described above, if any one menu item is selected, the code of the language connected to the menu item is changed and set to 'active language code' (S17).

Or more, preferred embodiments of the present invention described above, for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art, within the technical spirit and the technical scope of the present invention disclosed in the appended claims below, to further improve various other embodiments Changes, substitutions or additions will be possible.

According to the present invention, a method for displaying available languages of a recording medium according to the present invention enables all of the languages supported by the recording medium to be identified at a time as a whole, and also allows a user to quickly identify and select a menu item of a desired language. Improve the operability of the device.

Claims (17)

In the language menu display method of the device for playing the recording medium, Identifying available languages supported by the mounted recording medium; Generating a menu item which is individually activated or inverted for each of the identified available languages; Displaying each of the generated menu items on a main image reproduced and outputted from a mounted recording medium; Setting a code of an available language associated with the menu item when one item is selected from each of the displayed menu items; And And decoding a stream of an audio stream number and / or a subpicture stream number corresponding to the set language code from the data stream reproduced from the recording medium together with the video stream and outputting the same. How to display available languages. The method according to claim 1, wherein each available language is supported as an audio stream and / or a subpicture stream of the corresponding language. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first step identifies available languages based on information on language codes recorded on the recording medium. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step (3) determines a display order of the generated menu items based on a country code preset in the playback apparatus, and displays the menu items according to the determined order. How to display available languages for recording media. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the step (3) determines a display order of menu items of available languages corresponding to country codes preset in the playback apparatus. 6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step (3) causes the menu item determined as the highest priority to be displayed at the leftmost or top end in comparison with other items. delete In the language menu display method of the device for playing the recording medium, Identifying available languages supported by the mounted recording medium; Checking a country code preset in the playback device; Determining a display order of the identified available languages based on the identified country code; And And a four step of displaying the names of the available languages according to the determined display order. 10. The method of claim 8, wherein each available language is supported as an audio stream and / or a subpicture stream of the corresponding language. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step (3) determines the display order of the available languages corresponding to the country codes preset in the playback apparatus. delete 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the available language names are displayed in the form of individual menu items on a main image reproduced and output from the mounted recording medium. 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the available language names are displayed in the form of individual menu items on a blank image or a setup menu. 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the fourth step displays all of the identified available languages at once. delete 10. The method of claim 8, wherein the displayed names of the available languages are visually differentiated from the names of other available languages displayed when preselected. The method of claim 8, wherein the first step identifies available languages based on information on language codes recorded on the recording medium.

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