Optical disk apparatus
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshio Nakagawa
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Abstract
An optical disk apparatus for recording information on an optical disk or for reproducing information recorded on an optical disk, wherein previews corresponding to respective titles or chapters of information recorded on an optical disk are displayed and reproduced on a display device. The apparatus includes: a system controller which compares a target title or chapter with a comparison reference title or chapter during reproduction of a preview corresponding to the target title or chapter, and skips common scenes and reproduces subsequent information when the target title or chapter and the comparison reference title or chapter have common scenes.
Claims8
An optical disk apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on an optical disk, comprising:
- a system controller configured to:
- cause a display device to display previews of the contents recorded on the optical disk;
- compare a first one of the contents with a second one of the contents when the display device is caused to reproduce a first one of the previews corresponding to the first one of the contents;
- detect whether the second one of the contents contains a common scene which is commonly included in the first one of the contents;
- and
- cause the display device to reproduce a second one of the previews while not reproducing the common scene in a case where the common scene is detected.
An apparatus for reproducing contents recorded on a storage medium, comprising:
- a system controller configured to:
- cause a display device to display previews of the contents;
- compare a first one of the contents with a second one of the contents when the display device is caused to reproduce a first one of the previews corresponding to the first one of the contents;
- detect whether the second one of the contents contains a common scene which is commonly included in the first one of the contents:
- and
- cause the display device to reproduce a second one of the previews while not reproducing the common scene in a case where the common scene is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.