Sony Corporation

Ayato Nakagawa

Toshiaki Setogawa

Tsuyoshi Oda

Masao Sasaki

Kentaro Tanaka

Nobuyuki Takasu

A recording medium retaining data for menu control, a menu control method and an apparatus are provided for creating a menu highly expressive and attractive to the viewer. When operation of a menu button is determined on a menu created with a moving picture with sound, the menu button turns into action highlighting and the color of the button changes into a highlight color. In order to emphasize action highlighting of the menu button, a specific short moving picture with a sound is automatically replayed. After the replay of the moving picture, the display jumps to a chapter of a title selected with the menu button and a replay is started.

Recording medium retaining data for menu control, menu control method and apparatus

In an editing apparatus, the work efficiency can be improved comparing to a conventional apparatus. Storage means () having a plurality of input ports and at least one output port; and control means () for controlling the recording areas of the storage means, in which the different recording area is respectively assigned to each of a plurality of encoding means (to) as a recording area in which the encoded data is stored, the recording area in which the encoded data has been stored is assigned to the multiplexing unit (), and the recording area which is different from that of the encoded data is assigned as the recording area in which the multiplexed data is stored are provided, so that the storage means can be commonly used both in the encoding means and the multiplexing means. Thereby, the data transfer between encoding means and the multiplexing means does not performed. Therefore, the editing apparatus () which improves the work efficiency comparing to the convention apparatus can be realized.

Editing apparatus and data editing method

A data recording medium and a data replay apparatus are provided for allowing an automatic return to a menu at the completion point of a replay of one content and allowing an arbitrary jump to the next or previous content during a replay of one content. An entire disk of DVD for a musical product such as karaoke is made up of a single program chain (PGC) and tunes are divided into cells. An instruction to jump to a tune selection menu is written in a cell command (cell CMD) of each cell. On completion of a normal replay of a tune, the cell command is executed and the operation jumps to the tune selection menu.

Data recording medium and data replay apparatus

A reproduction control data generating apparatus for generating reproduction control data containing control commands indicating a method of reproduction of audio and/or video data and menu screen data indicating a menu screen used for designation of a control command at the time of reproduction of the audio and/or video data, comprising an input operation screen displaying means for displaying an input operation screen used for the input operation of a control command and the menu screen data, a control command generating means for generating a control command in accordance with an operation with respect to the displayed input operation screen, a menu screen data generating means for generating menu screen data in accordance with an operation with respect to the displayed input operation screen, and a reproduction control data generating means for generating reproduction control data based on the generated control command and the menu screen data.

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Ayato Nakagawa