JP4007372B2 - Optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus and relates to a technique for displaying a list of thumbnail images at the time of finalizing processing.

  In recent years, recording / playback apparatuses using optical disks such as DVD-RAM have appeared. This optical disc standard includes a rewritable type that can rewrite recorded information as typified by DVD-RAM and a write-once that is difficult to rewrite information once recorded as typified by DVD-R. There is a type. A DVD-RAM, which is a typical rewritable medium, can repeatedly record and erase, but a DVD-R, which is a typical write-once medium, has a feature that it is difficult to erase a video once recorded. A rewritable DVD-RAM can only be played back by a compatible playback device, but a write-once DVD-R performs a write termination process called finalization processing, thereby widely spreading DVD players (playback devices). The recording / playback apparatus capable of recording with DVD-R has been increasing.

  In such a recording / playback apparatus using an optical disc, in order to use random accessibility, thumbnail images, which are reduced images of representative scenes of input or recorded images, are displayed as a list on a monitor or the like, and a target image is displayed. There are many devices that improve search performance. Displaying a list of thumbnail images is called navigation here.

  As one of methods for displaying a navigation screen (hereinafter abbreviated as a navigation screen), for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-111963 has been put into practical use. This is because, during recording, thumbnail data (reduced image data) for displaying a thumbnail image in a recording area for TOC (Table Of Contents) information different from the recorded data or in a unique dedicated area is generated and recorded. Is. When the optical disc is a rewritable type, even if the recording area is discontinuous, it is allowed. Therefore, a system capable of preparing an area for recording thumbnail data and recording thumbnail data at the time of recording is provided. Yes. Even when there is no thumbnail data, it is possible to read an image file at the time of reproduction, create thumbnail list data, and record it in an area for thumbnail data. However, when the optical disc is a write-once type, the data to be recorded needs to be written sequentially and sequentially, so that the system does not record thumbnail data in another area during recording.

  On the other hand, a write-once optical disc such as a DVD-R has a feature that it can be played back by a DVD player that is generally widely used by performing a write termination process called finalization. As an operation method for performing the finalizing process, a method of performing processing by selecting an item for finalization from a menu screen or the like is generally used. Examples of this are the instruction manual page 55 of DVD video recorder “DMR-E20” manufactured by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and the instruction manual pages 32-33 of digital still camera “MVC-CD200 / CD300” manufactured by Sony Corporation. Taking this Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. DVD video recorder “DMR-E20” as an example, finalization processing is performed when the item “Finalize” under “Disk Management” is selected from the menu screen “Top Window”. At this time, the number of programs, the recording time, the remaining amount, and the number of markers are displayed in characters on the screen as the contents of the mounted optical disk, and the contents of the optical disk to be finalized can be confirmed from the character information.

  However, in the above prior art, in the case of a write-once optical disc, thumbnail data cannot be recorded in a different area from the image data on the optical disc at the time of recording. It is not considered to display the navigation screen. Therefore, in the case of a write-once type optical disc, the thumbnail image list (navigation screen) is not displayed, so the contents can be confirmed only by text information and the contents cannot be confirmed by the image. In some cases, there is a problem that the searchability becomes inconvenient. Furthermore, when trying to finalize a write-once type optical disc before finalization processing, the only way to check the recorded contents of the optical disc is to check the text information such as the number of programs, recording time, remaining amount, and number of markers. There was a problem that it could not be confirmed with images. Furthermore, if a write-once optical disc is loaded during an operation to call the navigation screen, the navigation screen cannot be displayed, so no operation is accepted or an alarm notification is required. There is a problem in that the operation is different and the user may be confused and the usability becomes inconvenient.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus that can display a list of thumbnail images even when a write-once type optical disc is used, and can check the contents by displaying the thumbnail images of the recorded contents as a list even during finalization processing. Is to provide.

The above object can be achieved by the invention described in the claims.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to confirm the contents of the images by displaying the thumbnail images of the contents at the time of finalizing when the write-once type optical disk is used.

  An embodiment of the present invention applied to a DVD camera will be described below with reference to FIGS. The present invention is premised on an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus that supports both DVD-RAM / DVD-RW as a rewritable optical disk as an external recording medium and DVD-R as a write-once optical disk. In the drawings, the same or similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  FIG. 1 is an example of a configuration diagram of an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1 is a video signal input unit, 2 is a video signal processing unit for performing various signal processing such as converting a video signal into a digital signal, and 3 is a digital signal for generating compressed data of the digital video signal. Video compression unit, 4 is a recording processing unit for recording compressed data and various data on an external recording medium, and 5 is a disc navigation button, menu button, cursor button, and decision button used for finalizing processing. An input unit such as a button, 6 is a control unit for discriminating the type of the external recording medium and performing various controls of the entire apparatus, and 7 is a variety of control for generating thumbnail data of an optical disc as an external storage medium Thumbnail control unit, 8 is a storage unit for storing thumbnail data, 9 is an external recording medium such as a removable optical disk (outside this apparatus), and 10 is an external recording medium 9 (hereinafter referred to as optical A reproduction processing unit for reproducing image data and thumbnail data, management information, and the like. 11 is a thumbnail data generation unit for extracting and creating thumbnail data from the image data from the reproduction processing unit. A thumbnail list generation unit that creates data for displaying a list of thumbnail images on one screen based on thumbnail data from the storage unit 8; 13 is a digital video decompression unit for decompressing compressed data recorded on the optical disc 9; A video signal processing unit 14 performs analog conversion on the decompressed data from the digital video decompression unit 13 and data from the thumbnail list generation unit 12 and performs various signal processing, and 15 displays an analog-converted signal. It is a display unit. Here, the display unit 15 may be an external display device instead of the present device.

  Here, a specific example of each unit 1 to 15 will be described. In this example, one video signal input unit is a device for inputting a video signal from a camera, a video signal from an external input, and the like. It is. The input unit may be not only a circuit connected by simple wiring and terminals, but also a signal received wirelessly (such as a videophone), or a built-in tuner or the like. 2 video signal processing units, 3 digital video compression units, 4 recording processing units, 6 control units, 7 thumbnail control units, 10 playback processing units, 11 thumbnail data generation units, 12 thumbnail list generation units Each of the digital video decompression unit 13 and the video signal processing unit 14 may be a circuit, or may be processing by microcomputer software such as a microcomputer. The operation buttons as the input unit 5 may be the above-described operation buttons, or may be remote control code reception from a remote controller or remote operation (RS-232C or the like) from a PC. The storage unit 8 includes a built-in memory. The external recording medium 9 (outside this apparatus) is an external recording medium such as a removable optical disk, which includes a write-once medium that needs to be finalized, and may be an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus. The display unit 15 may be a circuit, LCD, EVF, or external output (TV or the like).

  Next, an outline of a signal flow for generating thumbnail data and displaying a list of thumbnail images when the write-once optical disk 9 before finalization processing is loaded will be described. When a disc navigation button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed, the position of the image object data is read from the management information area of the optical disc 9 via the reproduction processing unit 10 under the control of the control unit 6, and the target image object is selected. The thumbnail data generation unit 11 extracts the first image of the image object under the control of the thumbnail control unit 7 to generate thumbnail data. The generated thumbnail data is stored in the storage unit 8 via the thumbnail control unit 7. This is repeated as many times as the number of all image objects or a predetermined number of image objects recorded on the optical disk 9.

  Next, the thumbnail data of at least one or more arbitrary number of image objects stored in the storage unit 8 is read, and the thumbnail list generation unit 12 generates thumbnail list display data. Here, as an arbitrary number of thumbnail data, for example, in a system that displays 12 thumbnail images on one screen, 12 thumbnail data are read. If there are fewer than 12 thumbnail data, all thumbnail data is read. The thumbnail list data is analog-converted by the video signal processing unit 14 and added with various information such as character information, and the display unit 15 displays a list of thumbnail images as a navigation screen. Thereafter, the finalizing process can be performed with a menu button (not shown), a cursor button, or the like of the input unit 5 while viewing the thumbnail image list display on the navigation screen.

  Next, a display example of a thumbnail image list display on the navigation screen and an operation of reproducing an image object from the thumbnail image list display on the navigation screen will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of a thumbnail image list display screen (hereinafter referred to as a navigation screen) according to the present invention. FIG. 2A is a navigation screen when a DVD-RAM disk is loaded, and FIG. 2B is a navigation screen when a DVD-R disk is loaded. FIG. 3 is an example of a cursor button and a determination button used when selecting a thumbnail image in the input unit 5 and for selecting various items. 2A and 2B, 21 is the entire navigation screen, 22 is a display of the current display content, 23 is a thumbnail image (in this figure, there are 12 images from A to L), and 24 is a selected thumbnail. Cursor position indications 25 and 26 indicating images indicate the type of the optical disk 9 loaded. “RAM” is displayed for a DVD-RAM disc, and “R” is displayed for a DVD-R disc. Also, in the case of other types of optical discs, a display for identifying the type of the optical disc is displayed at this position. In the case of a DVD-R disc, the display is changed before and after the finalizing process, which will be described later.

  Also, here, the type of the mounted optical disk 9 is discriminated, and the thumbnail data extraction method and thumbnail list data creation method are automatically switched and displayed according to the type, which will also be described later.

  In FIG. 3, 31 is a decision button for deciding a selected item, 32 is an upper cursor button for moving upward, 33 is a lower cursor button for moving downward, and 34 is moved to the left. The left cursor button 35 is a right cursor button for moving in the right direction.

  Next, an operation for reproducing the thumbnail image B will be described. First, when a disc navigation button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed, the screen shown in FIG. 2A or 2B is displayed. Since the current cursor position display 24 is at the thumbnail image A, the right cursor button 35 is pressed once, the cursor position display 24 is moved to the thumbnail image B, and then the playback button of the input unit 5 is pressed. Image objects can be played back.

  Next, an operation method and screen display for performing the finalizing process from the navigation screen on the DVD-R disc before finalizing will be described with reference to FIGS. 4A is a menu function screen when a menu button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed from the navigation screen of FIG. 2B, and FIG. FIG. 4C shows an example of the display screen when “Finalize” is further selected with the right cursor button 35 and the lower cursor button 33. FIG. FIG. 5A shows a confirmation screen for starting the finalizing process when the decision button 31 is pressed after selecting “Finalize” in FIG. 4C. FIG. 5B shows the finalizing process when the process start is further selected. FIG. 5C shows a display screen at the end of the finalizing process, and FIG. 5D shows an example of the display screen after the finalizing.

  When a menu button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed on the navigation screen shown in FIG. 2B, the current display content changes from the entire program 22 to the program 42, such as PRO (program) 43, DSC (disc) 45, etc. This is the screen for selecting the program menu. Here, when the lower cursor 33 is pressed twice, the screen in which the DSC (disc) 45 of FIG. 4B is selected is displayed, and when the right cursor 35 and the lower cursor 33 are further pressed once, the finalize 46 of FIG. The screen is selected. Since the thumbnail image of the image object recorded on the optical disk 9 can be viewed between FIG. 2B and FIG. 4C, the recorded content can be confirmed by the image before finalization. Thereby, it is possible to avoid erroneously finalizing the optical disc.

  Here, not only thumbnail images but also character information such as the number of programs, recording time, remaining amount, and number of markers may be displayed.

  When finalizing processing is determined by the determination button 31 in FIG. 4C, the portion of the display content becomes the finalizing screen 52 in FIG. 5A, confirming whether the finalizing processing is allowed and selecting “Yes” 53 Then, the finalizing display is shown in FIG. 5B, and the finalizing process is finished in FIG. 5C. Thereafter, the screen returns to the navigation screen as shown in FIG. At this time, since this DVD-R disc has been finalized, “R” 26 of the optical disc type display changes to “F” 54.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, a procedure for performing finalization processing from a thumbnail image list display screen (navigation screen) on a DVD-R disc before finalization and a navigation screen display procedure for other optical discs will be described. explain. FIG. 6 is an example of a flowchart showing the overall processing flow from thumbnail image list display to finalization processing. FIG. 7 is an example of a flowchart showing the flow of thumbnail generation processing. First, the overall flow will be described with reference to FIG.

  When a disc navigation button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed (step 601), thumbnail generation processing is performed in step 602, and thumbnail list data is generated. In step 603, a navigation screen (FIGS. 2A and 2B) which is a list display of thumbnail images is displayed, and a menu button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is waited to be pressed. When a menu button (not shown) of the input unit 5 is pressed in step 604, the menu function screen display (FIG. 4A) is displayed in step 605, and finalize 46 is selected in steps 606 and 607. Wait for When finalize 46 is selected in step 607 and the enter button 31 is pressed in step 608, finalization processing is executed in step 609. When finalization processing is completed, the display of the type of the optical disc 9 is changed from “R” 26 to “F” in step 610. ”54 and return to the navigation screen of step 603.

  Here, when a button other than the menu button and the cursor button is pressed in step 604 and step 606, processing corresponding to each button is executed. In the case of an optical disc other than the pre-format DVD-R and DVD-RW disc, the finalize item display is not displayed on the menu screen (FIG. 4B), and the process cannot proceed to step 607. Yes.

  Next, an example of the flow of the thumbnail list data generation process will be described with reference to FIG. When the thumbnail generation process is entered at step 602 in FIG. 6 (step 701), the type of the optical disk 9 loaded is discriminated at step 702. Here, in the case where the discriminating process has already been performed when the disc is loaded, the confirmation process may be performed here. If the discrimination result is a DVD-R disc, the management information in the management information area on the optical disc 9 is read in step 703, the target image object is reproduced, the top image information is extracted in step 704, and the thumbnail data is extracted. Generate. The generated thumbnail data is stored in the storage unit 8 in step 705. In step 706, the acquisition of the top image information of all the image objects recorded on the optical disk and the extraction and generation of the thumbnail data are confirmed, and the processing proceeds to step 703 until the acquisition of the top image information of all the objects and the storage of the thumbnail data. Return and repeat. When it is confirmed in step 706 that the top image information of all image objects has been obtained and thumbnail data has been stored, in step 707, thumbnail data of at least one arbitrary number of image objects is read from the storage unit 8; In 708, thumbnail list display data is generated, and the process ends (step 709). Thereafter, the navigation screen is displayed in step 603 of FIG.

  Here, as an arbitrary number of thumbnail data, for example, in a system that displays 12 thumbnail images on one screen, 12 thumbnail data are read. If there are fewer than 12 thumbnail data, all thumbnail data is read.

  If the determination result is other than the DVD-R disc in step 702, the management information in the management information area on the optical disc is read in step 711. In this case, since there is thumbnail data in the management information or in the dedicated area, the thumbnail data is read in step 712 and stored in the storage unit 8 in step 713. In step 714, the thumbnail data is read from the storage unit 8. In step 715, thumbnail list display data is generated, and the process ends (step 709).

  Here, the thumbnail list display data may not be stored in the storage unit 8, and the process jumping from step 712 to step 715 may be performed.

  In the present invention, the generated thumbnail list display data may be stored in the storage unit 8.

  In this embodiment, the image information of all the image objects is set in step 706. However, when it is confirmed that the image information of an arbitrary number of image objects is obtained and the thumbnail data is stored, a navigation screen may be displayed. . For example, when the number of thumbnail images on one screen is 12, the image information of 12 image objects is obtained and stored. At this time, when it is desired to display the next navigation screen (thumbnail image), the image data of the image object is obtained and the thumbnail data is stored when the next navigation screen is operated. Thereby, the time to display the navigation screen can be shortened. This is particularly effective when there are many recorded image objects.

  Further, if the thumbnail data once stored is stored in the storage unit 8, it is not necessary to call it in each time, and the operability when calling the previous navigation screen can be improved.

  In this embodiment, the timing for capturing the thumbnail image is set as the top image of the image object. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and an image at an arbitrary timing may be captured.

  In this embodiment, the operation and display example using the disc navigation button, menu button, cursor button, etc. have been described, but it goes without saying that the operation and display contents are not limited to this. For example, the input unit may be input by a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, etc. in addition to a button.

  In the present embodiment, the DVD-R disc after finalization has been described in the processing from step 703. However, in the case where it corresponds to an optical disc having thumbnail data in the management information area or the dedicated area of the DVD-R disc, the processing in step 702 is performed. Next, information in the management information area or the dedicated area may be read, and when thumbnail data is detected, the processing from step 711 may be performed.

  The processing flow and processing method described in this embodiment are merely examples, and the processing order and processing method are not limited to this, and other orders and processing methods may be used. For example, in this embodiment, an operation for finalizing processing is started from the thumbnail image list display screen (navigation screen) using the menu button. However, even if there is no thumbnail image list display first, finalization processing is performed. It may be displayed in the middle of the operation.

In this embodiment, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and DVD-R have been described as optical disks. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and other types of optical disks may be used. As described above, in this embodiment, the reproduction processing unit for reproducing various information such as image data and / or management information recorded on the removable external recording medium, and the thumbnail data from the image data from the reproduction processing unit. A thumbnail data generation unit that extracts and creates data, a storage unit that stores thumbnail data from the thumbnail data generation unit, and data for displaying a list of thumbnail images on one screen based on thumbnail data from the storage unit A thumbnail list generating unit, a video signal processing unit for converting the thumbnail image list display data from the thumbnail list generating unit into an analog video signal, an input unit for inputting operation or various information of the apparatus, and a thumbnail A thumbnail control unit for controlling the data generation unit, the storage unit, and the thumbnail list generation unit; When the first predetermined operation is performed from the input unit when a write-once optical disc is mounted as an external recording medium in the disc recording / reproducing apparatus, the thumbnail control unit performs management information on the write-once optical disc. From each of the image data, the thumbnail data of any image for each image data is extracted and created by the thumbnail data generation unit, the created thumbnail data is sequentially stored in the storage unit, A thumbnail list display data is generated from the data by a thumbnail list generation unit, whereby thumbnail images can be displayed as a list. Further, the write-once optical disk is an optical disk before finalization processing. As a result, in the case of a write-once optical disc, and even before finalization processing, thumbnail data is created, and a navigation screen, which is a list display of thumbnail images, can be displayed, improving searchability. Furthermore, when a recording processing unit for finalizing processing is provided and finalizing processing is performed on a write-once optical disc, a list of thumbnail images is displayed by the first predetermined operation, and then a second predetermined processing is performed. A finalizing process is performed by an operation. As a result, when finalizing, the recorded content can be confirmed with an image by operating from the navigation screen display. Further, a control unit for determining the type of the external recording medium mounted is provided, and data for displaying the type of the external recording medium is generated in the thumbnail list display data. The first display is performed when the finalizing process is not performed, and the second display is performed when the finalizing process is performed. Accordingly, in the case of a write-once type optical disc, the display is changed before and after the finalizing process, so that the visibility is improved. Further, when there is data for thumbnails on the external recording medium according to the determination of the type of the external recording medium and the determination result, thumbnail list display data is generated from the thumbnail data on the external recording medium, and the data is displayed on the external recording medium. When there is no thumbnail data, a control unit for controlling thumbnail data generation by the thumbnail control unit is provided. When a predetermined operation is performed, the type of the external recording medium is determined, and each recording medium is supported. A process for creating thumbnail list display data is performed. Thereby, when the operation for calling the navigation screen is performed, the navigation screen can be displayed regardless of the type of the optical disc, so that the usability is improved. Further, when finalizing processing using a write-once type optical disc, the contents can be confirmed by displaying a list of thumbnail images of the contents.

The block diagram which shows one Example in the optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus by this invention. An example of a thumbnail list display screen according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is an example of a cursor button and a determination button used when selecting a thumbnail image according to the present invention. FIG. An example of the menu function screen by this invention. An example of the display screen at the time of finalization processing by this invention. The flowchart of one Example which showed the flow of the whole process by this invention. The flowchart of one Example which showed the flow of the thumbnail production | generation process by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Video signal input part, 2 ... Video signal processing part, 3 ... Digital video compression part, 4 ... Recording processing part, 5 ... Input part, 6 ... Control part, 7 ... Thumbnail control part, 8 ... Memory | storage part, 9 ... External recording medium (outside of this apparatus), 10... Playback processing unit, 11... Thumbnail data generation unit, 12... Thumbnail list generation unit, 13 digital image decompression unit, 14 video signal processing unit, 15 display unit, 21. Entire screen, 22 ... Current content display, 23 ... Thumbnail image, 24 ... Cursor position display, 25, 26 ... Optical disc type display 31 ... Enter button, 32 ... Up cursor button, 33 ... Down cursor button, 34 ... Left Cursor button, 35 ... right cursor button.

Claims (3)

An optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus for recording image data on a write-once optical disc and reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc,
Reduced image generation means for generating a reduced image that is a representative image of the image data;
Output means for outputting a reduced image generated by the reduced image generation means to a display means;
Write termination processing means for performing write termination processing of the optical disk on which the image data is recorded;
Selecting the write termination process, and termination process instruction means for instructing execution of the write termination process,
An optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus in which the output means outputs a reduced image to the display means after selection of the write end process by the end process instruction means. An optical disc recording / reproducing method for recording image data on a write-once optical disc and reproducing the image data recorded on the optical disc,
Generating a reduced image that is a representative image of the image data;
An optical disc recording / reproducing method in which a user outputs the reduced image to a display means after finalization is selected as a write termination process of the optical disc. A list of reduced images that are representative images of the image data recorded on the optical disc is displayed on the display means,
A menu screen including a menu for performing finalization, which is a write termination process of the optical disc, is displayed overlaid on the reduced image list,
Select Finalize from the menu,
An optical disc recording / reproducing method for executing finalization processing.

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