Multilingual recording medium and reproducing apparatus with automatic selection of substitutes and languages based on frequency of selections
US5652824A · kind A · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 28, 1995 |
| Grant date | Jul 29, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 28, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/4856
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
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.
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