CD player for CD-like recording formats

US6256268A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Alois Kern · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Stefan Rapp · Schramberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 1998
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G11B2220/65
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A stand alone CD player for reading data from a recording medium having data formatted in accordance with CD-like recording formats, for example, CD-ROM, CD-I and CD-V, stored thereon. According to the present invention, the playback of data from a recording medium having data in such a recording format is made possible by a virtual table of contents generated by the stand alone CD player. The virtual table of contents also enables sequential access to data stored on the recording medium that has a table of contents that cannot be read by the present CD player.