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Recording medium reproduction apparatus and recording medium reproduction method for selecting, mixing and outputting arbitrary two streams from medium including a plurality of high effiency-encoded sound streams recorded thereon

Patent 5646931 Issued on July 8, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 5, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Method system & apparatus for synchronizing an auxiliary sound source containing multiple language channels with motion picture film video tape or other picture source containing a sound track
Patent #: 5055939
Issued on: 10/08/1991
Inventor: Karamon, et al.

Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing picture information and recording medium
Patent #: 5282186
Issued on: 01/25/1994
Inventor: Yoshio, et al.

Method and apparatus for encoding a video signal having multi-language capabilities
Patent #: 5289288
Issued on: 02/22/1994
Inventor: Silverman, et al.

Rational input buffer arrangements for auxiliary information in video and audio signal processing systems Patent #: 5481543
Issued on: 01/02/1996
Inventor: Veltman

Inventor

Application

No. 417254 filed on 04/05/1995

US Classes:

369/124.08, Sectioned information processing (e.g., lengths, frames, or blocks, etc.)348/462, Audio369/47.16, Of plural interrelated channels369/59.26, Binary signal processing of sectioned information386/97, Selective mode (e.g., mono, stereo, or bilingual)386/99Plurality of audio channels

Examiners

Primary: Epps, Georgia
Assistant: Chu, Kim-Kwok

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0381807 EP. 08/13/1990
  • 0521487 EP. 01/13/1993
  • 0644692 EP. 03/13/1995

International Class

G11B 007/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1994-04-08 JP

Abstract

A separation circuit for separating input unit data into individual sound streams; a separation circuit for separating each sound frame of the separated sound streams into a sound frame of main audio and a sound frame of multi-lingual audio; a main selection circuit for selecting one frame from a plurality of the separated main audio sound frames; a multi-lingual selection circuit for selecting one frame from a plurality of the separated multi-lingual sound frames; and a sound frame synthesis circuit for packing each sound frame selected in each of the selection circuit into a frame structure of MPEG2 audio.

Other References

  • "MPEG Technology", Sugiyama et al., pp. 161-164 (1993
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