US 7,031,597 B2Granted

Method for recording still picture group management information

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsAkira Date, Masahiro Kageyama, Tamotsu Ito

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Abstract

A method for recording still picture group management information for managing one or more still pictures as a still picture group onto a storage medium. The method includes recording still picture management information in the still picture group management information in the same order of recording corresponding still pictures. The still picture management information is classified into types of still picture management information including a first type of still picture management information, a second type of still picture management information, a third type of still picture management information, and a fourth type of still picture management information. The still picture management information also has a data size designated by the type.

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Dependent claims

A method for recording still picture group management information for managing one or more still pictures as a still picture group onto a storage medium, said method comprising a step of:

recording still picture management information in said still picture group management information in the same order of recording corresponding still pictures, wherein said still picture management information is classified into types of still picture management information including
a first type of still picture management information on a still picture with no audio to be reproduced in synchronism with the reproduction of the still picture,
a second type of still picture management information on a still picture with only an original audio recorded substantially at the same time the still picture was recorded,
a third type of still picture management information on a still picture with only a post-recorded audio added to the still picture already recorded, and
a fourth type of still picture management information on a still picture with both of an original audio and a post-recorded audio added to the still picture already recorded, and
wherein said still picture management information has a data size designated by said type.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/046,977Filed 17 Jan 2002 · continuation
Priority: JP 10-2240097 Aug 1998
Published: US 2002/0064377 A130 May 2002
Granted: 18 Apr 2006
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Classification31 codes

H04N 1/2166
Intermediate information storage: for mass storage, e.g. in document filing systems
G06F 16/58
Of still image data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
G11B 27/036
Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals: insert-editing
G11B 27/105
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating discs