Multilingual recording medium and reproduction apparatus
US6128434A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 9, 1998 |
| Grant date | Oct 3, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 9, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N9/888
- 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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