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US 2006/0188232 A1Published application
Information recording medium, information recording device, and information reproducing method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsKazuhiko Taira, Teiichi Ichikawa, Yumiko Taga
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an information recording medium includes a video object area for recording a video object formed of video object units which is a minimum unit for reproduction, and a highlight information pack which is included in the video object unit.
Claims5
An information recording medium comprising:
- a video object area for recording a video object formed of video object units which is a minimum unit for reproduction;
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- a highlight information pack which is included in the video object unit.
An information recording device comprising:
- a determination unit which determines whether or not pixel data conforms with basic pixel patterns based on a most significant bit of the pixel data;
- a pixel data output unit which outputs a predetermined number of lower bits of the pixel data when the pixel data conforms with the basic pixel patterns, and outputs the pixel data as it is when the pixel data does not conform with the basic pixel patterns;
- a run counter output unit which outputs a run counter according to a number of continuous runs of the pixel data;
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- a recording unit which records into a recording medium a run length compression code composed of the run counter output by the run counter output unit and the pixel data output by the pixel data output unit.
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An information reproducing method comprising the following steps:
- reading a compression flag indicating whether the number of continuous runs of pixel data is 1 or not prior to an output of pixel data;
- determining whether or not pixel data conforms with basic pixel patterns based on a bit which follows the compression flag;
- reading data of a first number of bits which follow the compression flag as the pixel data when the pixel data conforms with the basic pixel patterns, and reading data of a second number of bits which is larger than the first number of bits which follow the compression flag as the pixel data when the pixel data does not conform with the basic pixel patterns;
- when the pixel data conforms with the basic pixel patterns, adding a predetermined number of bits as higher bits to the read pixel data to be the pixel data of the second number of bits;
- when the number of continuous runs is not 1, reading a run counter and/or an extension counter according to a value of a counter extension flag which follows the pixel data;
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- outputting the pixel data continuously according to the value of the run counter and/or the extension counter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.