WO2006106978A1 - Information recording device, judgment screen creation method, display device, authoring system judgment screen creation method, and computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

There are provided an information recording device, a judgment screen creation method, and a computer program. The information recording device (5) capable of recording a plurality of content information of different television methods onto a single information recording medium include a judgment screen creation means (10) for creating a judgment screen capable of judging a television method of each content information. Thus, even when there are a plurality of content information of different television methods, it is possible to provide a judgment screen capable of easily judging the television method of each content information. Similarly, a display device can provide a judgment screen for easily judging the television method of each content information even when the information recording medium contains a plurality of content information of different television methods.

Description

 Specification

 Information recording device, discrimination screen creation method, display device, authoring system discrimination screen creation method and computer program

 Technical field

 [0001] The present invention relates to an information recording device for creating a television system discrimination screen capable of discriminating a television system of content information when recording or displaying a plurality of pieces of content information having different television systems, and creating a discrimination screen BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method, a display device, and an authoring system discrimination screen creation method and computer program.

 Background art

 [0002] Conventionally, information recorded on an information recording medium such as a DVD, in particular, content information including a video signal and an audio signal, is encoded by a television system of NTSC system or PAL system (hereinafter referred to as TV system). It's turned! / When video (information) of different TV formats is recorded on the same disc with an information recording device such as an optical disc recorder, it is possible to know which video format is recorded in which TV format! There wasn't.

[0003] On the other hand, in many discs created with an optical disc recorder, a menu that is a discrimination screen is played first at the time of playback, and the menu screen power is generally selected and played back. is there. For this reason, it is not possible to determine the TV system in the past, so if you want to be able to recognize it, you must understand the TV system of the content and operate the input device several times with a separate menu editing function etc. It was a great strength.

 Disclosure of the invention

 Problems to be solved by the invention

[0004] According to the conventional technology, although the TV system can be identified by using a menu editing function or the like, it is necessary to operate the input device many times, which is troublesome, and menu editing An example is the problem that the user needs to know the TV system of each video before using the function.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above, and even when there are a plurality of pieces of content information having different television systems, the television system of each content information can be easily determined. For the purpose of providing a possible discrimination screen! Speak.

 Means for solving the problem

 [0006] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the object, the present invention provides an information recording apparatus capable of recording a plurality of pieces of content information having different television systems on one information recording medium. It is characterized by comprising a discrimination screen creating means for creating a television system discrimination screen capable of discriminating the television system of the content information.

 [0007] In addition, the present invention provides a determination screen for creating a TV format determination screen for content information to be recorded on an information recording medium when a plurality of pieces of content information having different TV formats are recorded on one information recording medium. A method of creating a TV system acquisition step of acquiring information indicating a television system of the content information, a content specification information acquisition step of acquiring or creating content specification information for specifying the content information, and the content specification By adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the content information acquired in the television method acquisition step to the content specifying information acquired or created in the information acquisition step as visible television system information, a television system determination screen is displayed. And a determination screen generation step.

 [0008] Further, the present invention is a display device for inputting a plurality of pieces of content information having different television systems and displaying a television system determination screen including content specifying information for specifying the content information. Acquisition or creation of input means for inputting information, television system acquisition means for acquiring information indicating the television system of the content information input by the input means, and content specifying information for specifying the content information input by the input means Content specifying information acquiring means, and television format information that enables visual recognition of information indicating the television format corresponding to the content information acquired by the television format acquiring means in the content specifying information acquired or created by the content specifying information acquiring means For display to create a TV system discrimination screen by adding as And another screen creation means, and further comprising a display means for displaying a television system judgment screen created by the display discriminating screen creating means.

[0009] Further, according to the present invention, an authoring system discriminating screen creation for creating a material image data disk image by inputting a plurality of material data with different television systems. A television system acquisition step of acquiring information indicating a television system of the material data; a material data specification information acquisition step of acquiring or creating material data specification information for specifying the material data; Information indicating the television system corresponding to the material data acquired in the television system acquisition step is added as visible television system information to the material data identification information acquired or created in the material data identification information acquisition step. And a discrimination screen creating step for creating a television system discrimination screen by the above-described method.

 The invention's effect

 [0010] The information recording device, the discrimination screen creation method, the display device, the authoring system discrimination screen creation method and the computer program according to the present invention can be used even when there are a plurality of pieces of content information or material data having different television systems. It is possible to provide a discriminating screen that can easily discriminate the TV system of each content information or material data!

 Brief Description of Drawings

 FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of an information recording apparatus of the present invention.

 FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an optical disc recorder (information recording apparatus) according to the first embodiment.

 FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of a menu screen (TV system discrimination screen) created by the optical disc recorder of the first embodiment.

 FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing another example of the menu screen (TV system discrimination screen) created by the optical disc recorder of the first embodiment.

 FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing another example of the menu screen (TV system discrimination screen) created by the optical disc recorder of the first embodiment.

 FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing another example of the menu screen (TV system discrimination screen) created by the optical disc recorder of the first embodiment.

 FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the menu screen (TV system determination screen) created by the optical disc recorder of the first embodiment.

[Figure 8] Figure 8 shows the menu screen created by the optical disk recorder of Example 1 (TV system discrimination It is explanatory drawing which shows the other example of a screen.

 FIG. 9 is a block configuration diagram of a display device of Example 2.

 FIG. 10 is a schematic flowchart of information acquisition processing and thumbnail menu creation processing indicating the TV system of the third embodiment.

 FIG. 11 is a schematic flowchart showing a modification of the information acquisition process and thumbnail menu creation process indicating the TV system of the third embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

 5 Information recording device

 10 Discrimination screen creation method

 11 TV acquisition method

 12 Content identification information creation means

 13 TV storage means

 14 Recording means

 100 optical disk recorder

 110 Encoding section

 111 TV system discrimination circuit

 120 Navigation Information Creation Department

 130 Menu creation section

 131 Thumbnail image generator

 132 Menu image data

 133 Character information

 134 Button information

 140 Disc read Z write section

 150 CPU

 160 memory

 300 display

 310 Input means

320 TV acquisition method 330 Content specific information acquisition means

 340 Display discrimination screen creation means

 350 Display means

 BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

[0013] The information recording device, discrimination screen creation method, display device, authoring system discrimination screen creation method and computer program of the present invention are described below (Summary of the present invention).

), (Embodiment 1), (Embodiment 2), (Embodiment 3) will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in this order. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

 [0014] (Outline of the Present Invention)

 FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the information recording apparatus 5 of the present invention. The information recording apparatus 5 of the present invention is an apparatus capable of recording a plurality of pieces of content information having different TV systems (hereinafter referred to as TV systems) on one information recording medium, and can determine the TV system of content information. A discriminating screen creating means 10 is provided for creating a TV system discriminating screen. The information recording device 5 has a recording means 14 for recording various types of information on an information recording medium.

 [0015] The discrimination screen creation means 10 includes a TV system acquisition means 11 for acquiring information indicating the TV system of the content information as shown, and a content specification information acquisition means for acquiring or creating content specification information for specifying the content information. 12 and TV system storage means 13 for storing the content specific information acquired or created by the content specification information acquisition means 12 and the information indicating the TV system of the content information acquired by the TV system acquisition means 11 in association with each other. is doing.

 In the figure, the information recording medium is not shown, but an optical disk, HDD, memory, etc. can be assumed as the information recording medium. The content information TV system includes the NTSC system, PAL system, and SECAM system. In addition, it is possible to record multiple different pieces of content information. One title can be recorded in both NTSC and PAL formats, and different titles such as Title A and Title B can be recorded in Title A. Indicates that it is possible to record in different TV formats, such as NTSC format and Title B in PAL format.

An outline of the operation of the above configuration will be described. Containers recorded on information recording media When the input information (video signal and audio signal) is input, the TV system acquisition unit 11 of the discrimination screen creation unit 10 acquires information indicating the TV system of the corresponding content information. At this time, the TV system acquisition means 11 may determine and acquire the TV system from the input video signal, or specify the TV system from the outside as shown by the dotted line in the figure. You can also obtain it by inputting the signal directly.

 Next, the content specifying information acquisition unit 12 acquires or creates content specifying information for specifying the content information. As the content identification information, for example, any information that can identify the content information such as the title and thumbnail of the content information, the ID and management number assigned to the content information, and the button for identifying the content information can be used. You can use what exists in the information or create a new one.

 Subsequently, the TV system storage unit 13 associates the content specification information acquired or created by the content specification information acquisition unit 12 with the information indicating the TV system of the content information acquired by the TV system acquisition unit 11. Remember. For example, content information is managed with serial numbers (# 1 to # 999: corresponding to content specific information) in the order recorded on the information recording medium, and the TV system for each content information (# 1 to # 999) is NTSC. It is stored in association with information indicating the TV system that indicates whether the system is power or PAL. Note that the TV system is not limited to the NTSC system and the PAL system. For example, when the information recording medium can be recorded by the SEC AM system, the SECAM system is also the target TV system. If title information is included in the content information, the title information and information indicating the TV system may be stored in association with each other.

 [0020] After recording at least one piece of content information on the information recording medium, a signal for creating a TV system discrimination screen (for example, finalizing operation of an optical disc recorder) from the operation device of the information recording device 5, the remote control device, or the like Is input, the discriminating screen creating means 10 uses the content specifying information and information indicating the TV system stored in the TV system storing means 11 when creating the TV system discriminating screen, to the content specifying information. A TV system discrimination screen is created by adding information indicating the TV system corresponding to the information as visible TV system information (hereinafter referred to as TV system information).

[0021] As the TV system information, “NTSC method” is displayed in the vicinity of content specifying information (for example, a button). The button shape can be added as text data, such as “Formula” and “PAL method”. The shape of the button can be different for each TV method, such as a rectangle for the NTSC method and an ellipse for the PAL method. Different color information, NTSC format is red for each TV format, and PAL format is blue, but the highlight information for the color information of the button is different, NTSC format is high highlight for each TV format, PAL format is It can be used as a low highlight, or the buttons can be placed separately on each TV system in the single screen TV system discrimination screen, or the buttons can be placed on different TV system screens for each TV system. It is also possible to add a mark with a different shape depending on the TV system in the vicinity of the button.

The TV system discrimination screen created by the discrimination screen creation means 10 is recorded on the information recording medium by the recording means 14. When the TV system discrimination screen of this information recording medium is reproduced, even if a plurality of TV systems are mixed in one information recording medium, each content information ( Video) TV system can be identified.

 [0023] It should be noted that the TV system determination screen, for example, refers to the relationship between each piece of content information and information indicating the TV system of the corresponding content information, and then performs an instruction operation such as selecting content information or stopping playback thereof. It may be created as a menu screen that can be used.

 In FIG. 1, the TV system storage unit 13 is arranged in the information recording device 5, but the TV system storage unit 13 is configured using a part of the recording area of the information recording medium. Moyo ヽ. In addition, in the information recorded on the information recording medium, when there is information that associates the content specifying information stored in the TV system storage means 13 with the TV system of the content information, the information recording medium itself is stored. It can be used as TV system storage means 13.

 Further, FIG. 1 shows a configuration example in which the discrimination screen creation means 10 includes a TV system acquisition means 11, a content specifying information acquisition means 12, and a TV system storage means 13. In other words, in other words, information indicating the TV system is added to the content specific information as visible TV system information immediately after the content specifying information and the information indicating the TV system are stored in the TV system storage means 13. Create a TV system identification screen with.

Note that the configuration example of the discrimination screen creation means 10 according to the present invention is limited to the configuration of FIG. However, the computer provided in the information recording device 5 may be constituted by a computer program that functions as at least a part of the discrimination screen creating means 10. Further, a program for realizing the function or part of the function of the discrimination screen creation means 10 is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded on the recording medium is read by the computer and executed. Each function may be realized by the above.

 Example 1

 Next, the information recording apparatus of Example 1 will be described. Here, an optical disk recorder is taken as an example of the information recording device, and a method for creating a discrimination screen in the case of recording a mixture of NTSC format video and PAL format video on one DVD disc (information recording medium) is described in detail. explain. In the first embodiment, the TV system determination screen is created as a menu screen. Further, the discrimination screen creation means 10 will be described with a configuration example having a TV system acquisition means 11 and a content specific information acquisition means 12.

 FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the optical disc recorder 100 according to the first embodiment.

 The optical disc recorder 100 includes an encoding unit 110 that encodes an input video signal and audio signal, a navigation information creation unit 120 that creates reproduction control information (pigment information when playing a disc), a navigation unit Multiplexing unit 116 that multiplexes navigation information created by information creation unit 120 and video and audio data output from encoding unit 110, and disk read that writes and reads multiplexed data to and from disk It comprises a Z write unit 140, a menu creation unit 130 for creating a disc menu screen, a CPU 150 for controlling the above units, and a memory 160 for storing various information.

 [0029] The encoding unit 110 converts a TV system discrimination circuit 111 that determines the TV system of the input video, an AZD converter 112 that converts a video analog signal into a digital signal, and converts the video digital data into an MPEG format. The encoding circuit 113 includes an AZD converter 114 that converts an audio analog signal into a digital signal, and an encoding circuit 115 that converts audio digital data into an MPEG format.

[0030] The menu creation unit 130 also creates a thumbnail image creation unit 131 that creates a thumbnail image of each title, menu image data 132 that serves as a menu background, and a menu. Text information 133 added to the menu, button information 134 that is information on the color, shape, and position of the title selection button arranged on the menu, a video composition unit 135 that synthesizes image data, and the like, The encoding unit 136 that converts the video data synthesized by the video synthesis unit 135 to the MPEG format, and the data converted by the encoding unit 136 and the navigation information created by the navigation information creation unit 120 are multiplexed. It consists of 137 multi-plethus part.

 In the first embodiment, the TV system determination circuit 111 corresponds to the TV system acquisition unit of the present invention, and a part of the menu generation unit 130 (thumbnail image generation unit 131) corresponds to the content specifying information generation unit. To do. The TV system discrimination circuit 111, the memory 160, and the menu creation unit 130 constitute discrimination screen creation means.

 The operation of the above configuration will be described.

 When the optical disc recorder 100 starts recording video as content information under the control of the CPU 150, the input video is discriminated by the TV discriminating circuit 111 and then the AZD converter 112. It is converted into digital data and converted into MPEG data by the encoding circuit 113.

 On the other hand, the input audio is converted into digital data in the AZD conversion 14, and converted into data such as MPEG by the encoding circuit 115.

 The video and audio data output from the encoding unit 110 is sent to the multipletation unit 116 together with the navigation information created by the navigation information generation unit 120 according to a command from the CPU 150, multiplexed by the multipretation unit 116, and disk read. / Writing part 140 to write to disc.

 The CPU 150 obtains information indicating the TV system determined by the TV system determination circuit 111 at the time of recording a title, and stores it in the memory 160 together with recording information such as video title information.

 Thereafter, at the end of recording the title, the CPU 150 creates an information file including the navigation command in the navigation information creation unit 120 and records it on the disc in the disc read / write unit 140.

[0035] When recording of several titles is completed and finalization operation is instructed, a disc menu is created by the menu creation unit 130 and a disc read / write unit 140 creates a disc menu. To be recorded.

 In order to create a thumbnail image of each title, the menu creation unit 130 reads a part of the video of each title from the disc read Z write unit 140 and converts the thumbnail image for the menu into a thumbnail image for the menu. This thumbnail image corresponds to the content specifying information of the first embodiment.

 Next, the thumbnail image created by the thumbnail image creation unit 131 and the menu image data 132, the character information 133, and the button information 134 that become the background of the menu are synthesized by the video synthesis unit 135, and the menu video screen (menu Screen). At this time, the menu creation unit 130 sets the character information 133 or the button information 134 according to the information indicating the TV system of each title stored in the memory 160, and visually determines what the TV system of each title is. So that it can be identified. Thus, the character information 133 or the button information 134 that can visually distinguish the TV system of each title corresponds to the TV system information of the present invention.

 [0036] The menu screen synthesized by the video synthesis unit 135 is converted to an MPEG video by the encoding unit 136, and describes the operation when the button on the menu created by the navigation information creation unit 120 is pressed. Along with navigation information such as a navigation command, the data is multiplexed by the multi-platelet unit 137 and recorded on the disc by the disc read / write unit 140.

 Under the control of the CPU 150, the navigation information creation unit 120 creates an information file relating to the entire disc including the menu, and the created information file is recorded on the disc via the disc read Z write unit 140. Finally, the CPU 150 instructs the disc read Z write unit 140 to finalize the disc and completes the disc.

FIGS. 3 to 8 show examples of menu screens (TV format discrimination screens) created by the optical disc recorder 100 of Example 1, and FIG. 3 shows a button for selecting a title on the menu screen 200. In the vicinity of the button 201, character information 202 such as “NTSC system” and “PAL system” is added as TV system information enabling the information indicating the TV system of each title to be viewed. When a disc with the menu screen shown in Fig. 3 is played back, the TV format information added on the menu screen 200 is recorded even if a single disc is recorded with a mixture of TV formats. The TV system of each video can be easily discriminated by (character information 202).

[0038] FIG. 4 shows different button shapes for selecting a title on the menu screen 200, such as a rectangular button 201A for the NTSC system and an elliptical button 201B for the PAL system, depending on the TV system. When a disc with the menu screen shown in FIG. 4 is played back, even if the TV system is mixed, the TV system information (buttons 201 A and 201B) added on the menu screen 200 can easily The method can be determined.

[0039] Fig. 5 shows the color information of the button for selecting a title on the menu screen 200, which is different for each TV system by highlight information. For example, the NTSC system has a high highlight button 201A, PAL. The method is different from the normal button 201B. When playing a disc with the menu screen shown in Fig. 5, the TV format information (buttons 201 A and 20 IB) added on the menu screen 200 is displayed even when the TV format is mixed on one disc. Thus, the TV system of each video can be easily identified.

[0040] Figure 6 shows that the titles recorded on the disc are grouped for each TV format in one menu screen (menu screen 200), and the buttons for the NTSC format titles are placed in the lower area 203A. In the method, title buttons are arranged in the upper area 203B. When a disc with the menu screen shown in Fig. 6 is played back, TV format information (button placement area 203A, 203B) can easily determine the TV system of each video

[0041] FIG. 7 shows the buttons 201 divided into different screens (menu screens 200A and 200B) for each TV system. In this case, the menu screens 200A and 200B are menu screens with only the titles of the NTSC system or PAL system. Therefore, the menu information 200A, 200B is displayed for the purpose of determination, and character information 204 indicating whether each menu screen is a menu screen for an NTSC system title or a menu screen for a PAL system title is displayed. ing. Further, each menu screen 200A, 200B is provided with a button 205 for switching the screen of one menu screen 200A (or 200B) to the other menu screen 200B (or 200A). Since there is generally only one TV system for the menu screen recorded on one disc, this example will However, the menu screen (200A, 200B) itself is created by the same TV system. In other words, it is created in one of the NTSC and PAL TV systems!

 When the disc on which the menu screen of FIG. 7 is recorded is played back, one of the menu screens 200A and 200B is played back first. For example, if menu screens 200A and 200B are created in NTSC format in advance and the TV monitor connected to the player that plays the disc is in NTSC format, the menu screen TV format and the TV format of the player are Since they match, the menu screens 200A and 200B are played back without any video distortion. If a title (button) is selected from the menu screen 200A on which a button for a video in NTSC format is placed, the selected title can be played back without distorting the video. Further, when button 205 is selected on menu screen 200A, the screen is switched from menu screen 200A in which buttons for NTSC video are arranged to menu screen 200B in which buttons for PAL video are arranged.

 [0043] The menu screens 200A and 200B in Fig. 7 are specifically used in the NTSC system with two types of menu screens assuming that they will be played in Japan when NTSCZ PAL mixed discs are made in Japan. Prepare 200A and 200B. When the NTSCZPAL mixed disc created in this way is played on an NTSC player, when the menu screen 200B that allows the selection of the PAL title is activated, the user cannot play the title because the menu screen 200B is for PAL. Without using the button 205, you can switch to the menu screen 200A where you can select the NTSC title. By using different screens for each TV system in this way, it is possible to recognize (view) a title that can be played back without disruption of the video on one menu screen, and it is difficult to play back. You can avoid problems such as selection.

[0044] FIG. 8 shows a dedicated mark as TV system information indicating the TV system of each title in the vicinity of the button 201 for selecting a title on the menu screen 200. . For example, a special mark is added to each TV system, such as mark 206A for the NTSC system and mark 206B for the PAL system. When playing a disc on which the menu of FIG. 8 is recorded, the TV system of each video can be easily set by the TV system information (marks 206A and 206B) added on the menu screen 200 even when the TV system is mixed. Can be determined. Example 2

 Next, the display device of the present invention will be described as Example 2. FIG. 9 shows a block configuration diagram of the display device according to the second embodiment. The display device 300 according to the second embodiment is a content that manually identifies a plurality of content blueprints having different TV systems and identifies the content blueprint. † A display device that displays a TV system discrimination screen including a blueprint, and includes an input means 310 for inputting content information, and a TV system acquisition means for acquiring information indicating the TV system of the content information input by the input means 310. 320, content identification information acquisition means 330 for acquiring or creating content identification information for specifying content information input by input means 310, and TV format acquisition means for content identification information acquired or created by content specification information acquisition means 330 A TV system identification screen is created by adding information indicating the TV system corresponding to the content information acquired in 320 as visible TV system information. A display determination screen creation unit 340, a display unit 350. displaying the TV system discrimination screen created by the display determination screen generation means 340.

 [0046] The input means 310 only needs to be able to input content information. For example, when the content information is recorded on a DVD disc or the like, it corresponds to a disc reading device or the like that reads data (content information) from the disc. . In addition, when content information is also input to a storage device such as an HDD, an input / output interface is equivalent. Further, when content information is input via a network (for example, the Internet), a communication device or the like corresponds.

 [0047] The display means 350 may be any device that can display an image. For example, a TV monitor or the like can be used.

 [0048] The operation of the above configuration will be described. When the content information is input via the input unit 310, the display device 300 acquires information indicating the TV system of each content information by the TV system acquisition unit 320, and specifies the content information by the content specifying information acquisition unit 330. Get or create content specific information.

The display discrimination screen creation means 340 creates a TV system discrimination screen by adding information indicating the TV system corresponding to the content information as visible TV system information to the content specifying information. The display means 350 is created by the display discrimination screen creation means 340. The TV system discrimination screen is displayed. Here, as the TV system information, the same method as that of the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 3 to 8 can be used.

[0049] Since the TV system identification screen created and displayed in this way is automatically added with the TV system information as in the first embodiment, each video (content information) can be easily determined by the TV system information. The TV system can be determined. That is, according to the display device 300 of the second embodiment, even when the input content information is a plurality of TV system video contents, a menu that can easily determine the TV system of each video (content information) is created, Can be displayed.

 Example 3

 Next, a case where the discrimination screen creation method of the present invention is applied to the discrimination screen creation method of the authoring system will be described as a third embodiment.

 Example 3 is a method for creating a discriminating screen for an authoring system for inputting a plurality of material data having different television systems and creating a material data disk image, and information indicating the television system of the material data. TV data acquisition process, material data specification information acquisition process for acquiring or creating material data specification information for specifying material data, and material data specification information acquired or created in the material data specification information acquisition process. A discrimination screen creation step of creating a television system discrimination screen by adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the material data acquired in the television system acquisition step as visible television system information.

 [0051] Here, the thumbnail of the material data is used as the material data specifying information for specifying each material data. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, the title of each material data, You can also use ID numbers etc. that can identify material data

[0052] In addition, the authoring system refers to navigation information that multiplexes materials (video, audio, MPEG elementary data such as still images, etc.) contained in media as presentation data based on each application standard. It is a series of software systems that constructs a logical data file including additional information, etc., constructs a file system, and creates a disk image. In this example, this A method for creating the TV system discrimination screen of the video system will be described. Here, the target TV system is described as NTSC system and PAL system.

FIG. 10 is a schematic flowchart of information acquisition processing and thumbnail menu creation processing indicating the TV system of the second embodiment. The thumbnail menu screen created by the thumbnail menu creation process corresponds to the TV system discrimination screen of the present invention.

 The authoring system executes an information acquisition process indicating the TV system when material data is input. In the information acquisition process indicating the TV system, information indicating the TV system of the material data is acquired (S10), and each material data and the TV system of each material data are associated with each other and stored in a predetermined memory (S20).

 Next, when thumbnail display of each title of material data is selected in the authoring system, thumbnail menu creation processing is executed. In the thumbnail menu creation process, a thumbnail menu is created from the material data (S30), and at the same time, by referring to the information indicating the TV system of each material data recorded in the memory! The TV system information that can recognize the expression is selected (S40), and the TV system information of each material data is added to the created thumbnail menu screen to create a thumbnail menu screen (S50). Here, an example is shown in which TV system information is created and stored in advance for each TV system, but TV system information may be created and used in S40.

 [0054] Since the TV system information is automatically added to the thumbnail menu screen created by the thumbnail menu creation process, as in the first embodiment, the TV system of each video (thumbnail) can be easily determined by the TV system information. Can be determined.

 FIG. 11 shows a modified example of a schematic flowchart of information acquisition processing and thumbnail menu creation processing indicating the TV system of the third embodiment. In the modified example, the total time that is the total recording time of each material data is obtained for each TV system and displayed on the thumbnail menu screen.

The authoring system executes an information acquisition process indicating the TV system when material data is input. In the information acquisition process indicating the TV system, information indicating the TV system of the material data is acquired (S10), and each material data and the information indicating the TV system of each material data are associated and stored in the memory (S20). . Next, when thumbnail display of each title of material data is selected in the authoring system, thumbnail menu creation processing is executed. In the thumbnail menu creation process, a thumbnail menu is created from the material data (S30), and at the same time, the TV system information for each material data is recognized by referring to the information indicating the TV system of each material data. (S40), calculating the total time of NTSC material data and PAL material data (S60), and creating thumbnail menu screens that create the TV system information of each material data and the total time of each TV system Create a thumbnail menu screen (S70).

[0056] Since the TV format information is automatically added to the thumbnail menu created in this manner as in the first embodiment, the TV format of each video (thumbnail) is easily determined based on the TV format information. be able to. In this example, the total time of NTSC material data and the total time of PAL material data are calculated and automatically described in the menu, which improves the workability and convenience of the authoring system. Improvements can be made.

 Industrial applicability

[0057] As described above, the information recording device, the discrimination screen creation method, the display device, the authoring system discrimination screen creation method and the computer program according to the present invention include a plurality of pieces of content information or materials having different television formats. This is useful when handling data, and is particularly applicable to DVD recorders, Blu-ray recorders, HDD recorders, DVD players, Blu-ray players, HDD players, and the like.

Claims

The scope of the claims  [1] In an information recording device capable of recording a plurality of content information with different television systems on one information recording medium!  An information recording apparatus comprising: a discrimination screen creating means for creating a television system discrimination screen capable of discriminating a television system of the content information.  [2] The discrimination screen creation means  A television system acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a television system of the content information; and a content specification information acquisition unit that acquires or creates content specification information that specifies the content information.  The television system determination is performed by adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the content information acquired by the television system acquisition unit as visible television system information to the content identification information acquired or created by the content identification information acquisition unit. 2. The information recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a screen is created. [3] The discrimination screen creation means  The content specification information stored in the television system storage means includes television system storage means for storing the content specification information and information indicating the television system of the content information acquired by the television system acquisition means in association with each other. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a television system discrimination screen is created using information indicating the television system. 4. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the television system information is text data added in the vicinity of the content specifying information. 5. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the television system information is obtained by changing a shape of the content specifying information for each television system. 6. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the television system information is obtained by changing color information of the content specifying information for each television system. 7. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the television system information is obtained by arranging the content specifying information separately for each television system. [8] The television system information includes different screens for the content identification information for each television system. 4. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information recording apparatus is arranged on a television system discrimination screen.  9. The information recording apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the television system information is a mark added in the vicinity of the content specifying information. [10] A discrimination screen creation method for creating a television format discrimination screen for content information recorded on an information recording medium when a plurality of pieces of content information having different television formats are recorded on one information recording medium,  A television system acquisition step of acquiring information indicating a television system of the content information; a content specification information acquisition step of acquiring or creating content specification information specifying the content information;  Television system discrimination is performed by adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the content information acquired in the television system acquisition step as visible television system information to the content identification information acquired or created in the content identification information acquisition step. A discrimination screen creation process for creating a screen,  A method for creating a discrimination screen characterized by including [11] A display device for inputting a plurality of pieces of content information having different television systems and displaying a television system determination screen including content specifying information for specifying the content information.  Input means for inputting the content information;  TV system acquisition means for acquiring information indicating the TV system of the content information input by the input means;  Content specifying information acquiring means for acquiring or creating content specifying information for specifying the content information input by the input means;  Television system discrimination is performed by adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the content information acquired by the television system acquisition unit to the content identification information acquired or created by the content identification information acquisition unit as visible television system information. A display discriminating screen creation means for creating a screen; Display means for displaying the television system discrimination screen created by the display discrimination screen creation means And a step.  [12] A method for creating a discriminating screen of an authoring system for inputting a plurality of material data having different television formats and creating a disk image from the material data, and showing the television format of the material data A television system acquisition step for acquiring information, a material data identification information acquisition step for acquiring or creating material data identification information for identifying the material data,  By adding information indicating the television system corresponding to the material data acquired in the television system acquisition step as visible television system information to the material data identification information acquired or created in the material data identification information acquisition step. A discrimination screen creation process for creating a television system discrimination screen,  A method for creating a discriminating screen for an authoring system, comprising: [13] The process according to claim 12, wherein the determination screen creation step calculates a total time that is a total recording time of each material data for each television system and displays the total time on the television system determination screen. How to create a discriminating screen for the authoring system. [14] A computer program for controlling a computer provided in the information recording device according to claim 1,  A computer program for causing the computer to function as at least a part of the discrimination screen creating means.