Information recording medium playback apparatus, information recording medium playback method, and information recording medium

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information recording medium playback apparatus of the invention comprises an interrupt specifying section, an interrupt position information holding section, a playback resume specifying section which gives a playback resume instruction after the interruption, an interrupt position read control section which, when the playback resume instruction has been given, reads a specific management information pack at the interrupt position on the basis of the interrupt position information, a synchronous information referring section which refers to synchronous information included in the management information pack, a specific pack taking-in control section which takes in a specific pack from a position ahead of the interrupt position, referring to the synchronous information, and a playback processing section which reproduces not only the data in the specific pack but also the data in the pack from the interrupt position.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

A general architecture that implements the various feature of the invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. The drawings and the associated descriptions are provided to illustrate embodiments of the invention and not to limit the scope of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an information recording medium playback apparatus to which the invention has been applied;

FIG. 2 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of the volume space of a video disc according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a diagram to help explain the volume space of FIG. 2 in more detail;

FIG. 4 is a diagram to help explain the video manager information (VMGI) of FIG. 3 in more detail;

FIG. 5 is a diagram to help explain the information in the title search pointer table (TT_SRPT) of FIG. 4 in more detail;

FIG. 6 is a diagram to help explain the title search pointer table information (TT_SRPTI) of FIG. 5 in more detail;

FIG. 7 is a diagram to help explain the information in the title search pointer (TT_SRP#n) for titles of FIG. 5 in more detail;

FIG. 8 is a diagram to help explain the video title set information (VTSI) of FIG. 3 in more detail;

FIG. 9 is a diagram to help explain the information in the video title set part-of-title search pointer table (VTS_PTT_SRPT) of FIG. 8 in more detail;

FIG. 10 is a diagram to help explain the part-of-title search pointer table information (PTT_SRPTI) of FIG. 8 in more detail;

FIG. 11 is a diagram to help explain the information in the title unit search pointer (TTU_SRP#n) of FIG. 9 in more detail;

FIG. 12 is a diagram to help explain the information in the part-of-title search pointer (PTT_SRP#n) of FIG. 9 in more detail;

FIG. 13 is a diagram to help explain the information in the video title set program chain information table (VTS_PGCIT) of FIG. 9 in more detail;

FIG. 14 is a diagram to help explain the video title set program chain information (VTS_PGCI) of FIG. 13 in more detail;

FIG. 15 is a diagram to help explain the information in the program chain program map (PGC_PGCMAP) of FIG. 14 in more detail;

FIG. 16 is a diagram to help explain the information in the cell playback information table (C_PBIT) of FIG. 15 in more detail;

FIG. 17 is a diagram to help explain the cell playback information (C_PBI) of FIG. 16 in more detail;

FIG. 18 is a diagram to help explain the information in the cell position information table (C_POSIT) of FIG. 15 in more detail;

FIG. 19 is a diagram to help explain a hierarchy of contents of a video object;

FIG. 20 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of a navigation pack (NV_PCK) included in a video object;

FIG. 21 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of data search information (DSI) in the navigation pack (NV_PCK) of FIG. 20;

FIG. 22 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of general information (DSI_GI) in the data search information (DSI) of FIG. 21;

FIG. 23 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of synchronous information (SYNCI) in the data search information (DSI) of FIG. 21;

FIG. 24 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of a sub-picture data unit;

FIG. 25 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of a highlight pack;

FIG. 26 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of the data in a highlight pack;

FIG. 27 is a diagram to help explain the configuration of highlight information (HLI) composed of the data in a highlight pack;

FIG. 28 shows an example of an image composed of a main picture, a sub-picture, and a highlight;

FIG. 29 is a block diagram showing characteristic parts of an apparatus according to the invention;

FIG. 30 is a flowchart to help explain the operation of the apparatus in FIG. 29; and

FIG. 31 shows an example of data allocation on a disc to help explain the operation of the apparatus in FIG. 29.

Claims

1. An information recording medium playback apparatus comprising: an interrupt specifying section which specifies the interruption of playback of the contents of a disc;an interrupt position information holding section which holds interrupt position information on the interrupt position on the disc when the interrupt specifying section has given an interrupt instruction;a playback resume specifying section which gives a playback resume instruction after the interruption;an interrupt position read control section which, when the playback resume instruction has been given, accesses the interrupt position on the basis of the interrupt position information and reads a specific management information pack;a synchronous information referring section which refers to synchronous information included in the management information pack;a specific pack taking-in control section which takes in a specific pack from a position ahead of the interrupt position, referring to the synchronous information; anda playback processing section which, after the specific pack has been taken in, reproduces not only the data in the specific pack but also the data in the pack from the interrupt position.

2. The information recording medium playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific pack taking-in section takes in a highlight pack as the specific pack.

3. The information recording medium playback apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the specific pack taking-in section further takes in a sub-picture pack as the specific pack.

4. The information recording medium playback apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the management information pack is a navigation pack located at the head of an enhanced video object unit composed of a plurality of packs.

5. An information recording medium playback method which has a read section for reading the contents of a disc, a playback processing section for processing the data in a pack train taken in from the read section, a controller, and an operation input section and reproduces video information, the information recording medium playback method comprising: holding interrupt position information on the interrupt position on the disc when the operation input section has given an instruction to interrupt the playback of the contents of the disc;when a playback resume instruction has been given, accessing the interrupt position on the basis of the interrupt position information and reading a specific management information pack;referring to synchronous information included in the management information pack;taking in a specific pack from a position ahead of the interrupt position, referring to the synchronous information; andafter the specific pack has been taken in, reproducing not only the data in the specific pack but also the data in the pack from the interrupt position.

6. The information recording medium playback method according to claim 5, further comprising: taking in a highlight pack as the specific pack.

7. The information recording medium playback method according to claim 6, further comprising: further taking in a sub-picture pack as the specific pack.

8. The information recording medium playback method according to claim 5, further comprising: taking in a navigation pack located at the head of an enhanced video object unit composed of a plurality of packs as the specific management information pack.

9. An information recording medium comprising: enhanced video object units arranged so as to form a stream, each of which includes a navigation pack at its head and further includes a plurality of video packs, a plurality of audio packs, a plurality of sub-picture packs, and a plurality of highlight packs in that order, the navigation pack having synchronous information written therein, and the synchronous information having a start address written therein of the preceding enhanced video object unit including a plurality of highlight packs related to the video of the enhanced video object unit to which the synchronous information belongs.

10. The information recording medium according to claim 9, wherein the synchronous information has a start address written therein of the preceding enhanced video object unit including a plurality of sub-picture packs related to the video of the enhanced video object unit to which the synchronous information belongs.