US 6,748,161 B2 · Storage medium storing catalog information and corresponding audio data

Abstract

A storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information playback apparatus and method therefor. Using the method, catalog information including a still picture and additional information together with audio data are recorded on a storage medium such as a digital versatile disk (DVD), which is an optical record storage medium, and the catalog information is played back during playback of the audio data, to thereby provide various information on the audio data. Also, the apparatus includes a buffer memory for catalog playback which maintains a predetermined standard and compatibility, and is capable of real-time reading during playback of the audio data, and automatically plays back the catalog content, corresponding to the playback state of the audio data, when there is no additional selection of a user.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A storage medium, comprising:

audio data stored in an audio region of the storage medium;
and
catalog information related to the audio data by catalog playback information and which is stored in a predetermined area of the storage medium other than the audio region,
wherein the audio region comprises
an audio data region in which the audio data is recorded, and
an audio information region including the catalog playback information connecting the audio data to the catalog information during playback,
wherein the catalog playback information comprises an auto presentation information table determining the catalog information to be played back corresponding to a predetermined time during reproduction of the audio data.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/923,321Filed 8 Aug 2001 · division

Priority

KR 98-75256 Mar 1998

Published

US 2003/0170005 A16 Nov 2003

Granted

8 Jun 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification26 codes

H04N 9/877
Regeneration of colour television signals: by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate memory
C08L 67/025
Polyesters derived from dicarboxylic acids and dihydroxy compounds: containing polyether sequences
G11B 19/02
Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of…:…
G11B 19/022
Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing: control panels

Storage medium storing catalog information and corresponding audio data

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Storage medium storing catalog information and corresponding audio data

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Abstract

Claims12