Method and apparatus for coordinating playback from multiple video sources
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsWataru Ikeda, Tomoyuki Okada, Keiichi Tanaka, Masahiro Oashi
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Abstract
A playback apparatus performs multiangle playback by selectively playing back a plurality of video streams stored on a BD-ROM and a hard disk. In response to a user operation requesting an angle change, the playback apparatus reads a video stream corresponding to the requested angle either from the BD-ROM or the hard disk. During playback of a video stream stored on the hard disk, a drive device of the optical disc is controlled so that the optical pickup always points to an area of the BD-ROM where a video stream is stored.
Claims6
A playback apparatus for selectively playing back a plurality of video streams stored on a plurality of recording media, comprising:
- a plurality of drive devices, each operable to access a different one of the recording media;
- a selecting unit operable to select one of the video streams in accordance with a user operation or a state of the playback apparatus;
- a control unit operable to control the drive devices, so that the selected video stream is read from one of the recording media;
- and
- a playback unit operable to play the read video stream, wherein
- one of the recording media is an optical disc, and another of the recording media is a secondary medium used as an additional medium to the optical disc, and
- when the video stream to be read is switched from the video stream stored on the optional disc to the video stream stored on the secondary medium, the control unit causes an optical pickup of an optical disc drive device to point to an area on the optical disc where the video stream is stored, despite that the video stream stored on the optical disc is not played, wherein
- the optical pickup is caused to point at a position in the area on the optical disc where the video stream is stored, the position corresponding to a current read position in the digital stream stored on the secondary medium.
A method for use by a playback apparatus to selectively play back a plurality of video streams stored on a plurality of recording media, said method comprising:
- a selecting step of selecting one of the video streams in accordance with a user operation or a state of the playback apparatus;
- a control step of controlling a plurality of drive devices each operable to access a different one of the recording media, so that the selected video stream is read from one of the recording media;
- and
- a playback step of playing the read digital stream, wherein
- one of the recording media is an optical disc, and another of the recording media is a secondary medium used as an additional medium to the optical disc, and
- in the control step, when the video stream to be read is switched from the video stream stored on the optical disc to the video stream stored on the secondary medium, an optical pickup of an optical disc drive device is caused to point to an area on the optical disc where the video stream is stored, despite that the video stream stored on the optical disc is not played, wherein
- the optical pickup is caused to point at a position in the area on the optical disc where the video stream is stored, the position corresponding to a current read position in the video stream stored on the secondary medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.