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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTakeshi Kato, Takeshi Miura
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A disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing a disc on which at least audio data such as sound, music or the like and image data such as pictures, characters or the like are recorded is comprised of a reproducing device for reproducing audio data recorded on the disc, a memory for writing therein image data recorded on the disc, a video signal generating circuit for generating a video signal on the basis of image data stored in the memory, a display supplied with the video signal and displaying thereon the image data, and an image processor for writing the image data on the memory when the audio data is reproduced and selecting the image data written so that selected image data is sequentially displayed on the display.
An article of manufacture, comprising:
A disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing sound, visual displays, and a control panel display from a disc on which are recorded at least audio data for playing back as said sound, image data corresponding to said visual displays, and operation image data corresponding to the control panel display, said control panel display having a plurality of operation keys which are used to select image data or produce a display corresponding to image data, the disc reproducing apparatus comprising:
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The additional signal being a character code signal: involving the use of subcodes
Recording, reproducing or erasing systems characterised by the shape or form of the carrier: with discs
Guiding record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor: programmed access to indexed parts of tracks of…
Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of…:…
Term ended 24 Jan 2012 (estimated)
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to disc and disc player for displaying a picture information and, more particularly, is directed to a disc and disc reproducing apparatus suitably applied to a CD-I (CD-interactive media) disc and a CD-I disc player or the like.
2. Description of the Related Art
A better understanding of other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention can be gained from a consideration of the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment thereof, in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an overall arrangement of the disc reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention with a middle lid closed;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an overall arrangement of the disc reproducing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention with the middle lid opened;
An embodiment of the present invention will hereinafter be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this embodiment, the present invention is applied to the CD-I player.
In FIGS. 1 to 3, reference numeral 1 generally designates the entirety of the CD-I disc player according to the present invention. The CD-I disc player 1 of this embodiment has a liquid crystal display (LCD) 13 unitarily formed therewith so that the user can carry thin CD-I disc player 1 outdoors. Further, the CD-I disc player 1 can be miniaturized and reduced in weight by the use of parts fabricated as ICs, semiconductor chips or the like. The overall dimension of the CD-I disc player 1 is 140 mm wide, 170 mm long and 60 mm high, for example.
The CD-I disc player 1 has a player unit 2 the casing of which houses therein an optical disc drive unit for rotating a disc 15 loaded therein, an optical pickup drive unit for moving an optical head along the radial direction of the disc 15 and a printed circuit board on which circuits for processing a reproduced signal from the optical pickup head are mounted. Also, the microcomputer formed of the 68000-type (Motorola) CPU is housed within the casing of the player unit 2.