Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

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Yuichi Miyano

Koichi Hirayama

Masatoshi Nakai

Kenjiro Endoh

A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize the manufacture of disks and reproduction apparatuses world-wide, resulting in a reduction in production cost. In a disk 100, various types of information are recorded in different languages along with video information. A reproduction apparatus selects information in a given language from the reproduced information using a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, and an operator section 205, and supplies the selected pieces of information to each of a video processing section 206, a subtitle decoder 211, and an audio processing section 213.

Multilingual recording medium and reproduction apparatus

A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize the manufacture of disks and reproduction apparatuses world wide, resulting in a reduction in production cost. In a disk 100, various types of information are recorded in different languages along with video information. A reproduction apparatus selects information in a given language from the reproduced information using a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, and an operator section 205, and supplies the selected pieces of information to each of a video processing section 206, a subtitle decoder 211, and an audio processing section 213.

A disc shaped data recording medium adapted for recording/reproducing information data in a medium adapted for recording/reproducing information data in accordance with a modified constant angular velocity system and having sectors allocated in an interleaving manner which is adjusted in accordance with a track location along the radius of the disc shaped data recording medium. By allocating the sectors in this fashion, the data rate of the data recorded on the medium can be unified over the data recording medium from its innermost track to its outermost track.

Method of recording information on a disc by recording information at

Recording medium comprising a plurality of different languages which are

A reproduction apparatus is designed to select and decode speech and subtitles (characters) in a given language from a disk on which various types of information are recorded in different languages. This system arrangement makes it possible to standardize the manufacture of disks and reproduction apparatuses world-wide, resulting in a reduction in production cost. In a disk 100, various types of information are recorded in different languages along with video information. A reproduction apparatus selects information in a given language from the reproduced information using a data string processing section 203, a system control section 204, and an operator section 205, and supplies is the selected pieces of information to each of a video processing section 206, a subtitle decoder 211, and an audio processing section 213.

Multilingual recording medium which comprises frequency of use

An apparatus for generating compressed signals, which can serve to record data with high efficiency, to manage data easily, to reproduce programs in a special manner, to search for data at high speed, and to achieve accurate image-speech synchronization. The apparatus comprises a video-data grouping device for processing video data into groups, each consisting of a predetermined number of video data items corresponding to image frames; a video-data compressing device for compressing and encoding the video data items of each group; an audio-data grouping device for processing audio data corresponding to the video data into groups, each group consisting of audio data items; an audio-data compressing device for compressing and encoding the audio data items of each group; a sub-video data grouping device for processing sub-video data into groups, each group consisting of sub-video data items; a sub-video data compressing device for compressing and encoding the sub-video data items of each group; a formatter for combining the groups of compressed video data items, the groups of compressed audio data items and the groups of compressed sub-video data items thereby generating a data unit.

Apparatus for processing compressed video signals which are be recorded

Apparatus for reproducing picture data includes a variable length decoder and Huffman decoder, an inverse discrete cosine transformer (IDCT) coupled to the Huffman decoder, an intra-frame unit for prediction and motion compensation coupled to the IDCT, a memory coupled to the intra-frame unit, a buffer memory coupled to an output of the intra-frame unit, a resolution changer coupled to the buffer memory, a frames in/out unit coupled to the output of the resolution changer; a unit for changing the picture frame time table coupled to the output of the frames in/out unit, a frame memory coupled to the changing unit, and a selector for selecting picture data for reproduction from the buffer memory or the changing unit.

Method and apparatus for reproducing picture data

Multilingual recording medium and reproducing apparatus with automatic

A character image encoding/decoding apparatus is provided with an encoder for encoding character data to a sub-picture with a bit-mapped shape of monochromic character data, separately from an encoding of a main picture, a detector for detecting bit changing positions in a two-dimensional manner from the bit-mapped shape of monochromic character data; an extractor for extracting a contour of the character data; and a developer for developing the character data, the contour and a background of the character data in three domains, respectively.

Character image encoding/decoding system

The image data processing apparatus includes a position adjusting means for adjusting a paste-in position in pasting a secondary image in a primary image, an image data editing means for editing the image of a third image resulted by the pasting of the secondary image in the primary image, an image data compressing means for compressing the image data through a block encoding, an optimal value detecting means for detecting an optimal value of the compressed image data by absolutely or relatively determining an amount of the compressed data compressed by the image data compressing means, and means for automatically adjusting the paste-in position within a given space around the paste-in position so as that the amount of the compressed data becomes a minimum.

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Kamakura, Japan

Yuichi Miyano