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EP0465246A2 Expired / Lapsed EP ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Information storage medium and apparatus for reproducing information therefrom

Assignee: Pioneer Corp
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Filing: 1991-07-04
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2011-07-04
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Abstract

Abstract An information storage medium such as a CD-ROM has a storage area which stores digital audio information including music digital audio information and a plurality of music piece information having mark information for retrieving the accompaniment information, and a digital contents information table including music title information which represents titles of the music piece information with image information or voice sound information. The storage area is divided into a plurality of sections. Some of the sections which precede the other sections in time store the digital contents information table. The other sections store the digital audio information. An apparatus for reproducing information from the information storage medium selectively reads the music piece information based on the mark information.

Inventors

  • 👤 Keiichi C/O Pioneer Electronic Corp. Yamauchi
  • 👤 Toshihiko c/o Pioneer Electronic Corp. Shimizu
  • 👤 Satomi c/o Pioneer Electronic Corp. Sudo

Bibliographic Details

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Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 13:39
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B20/00; G11B20/10; G11B20/12; G11B20/1217; G11B20/1254; G10; G10H; G10H1/00; G10H1/0008; G10H1/36; G10H1/361; G10H1/363; G11B20/10527; G11B27/00; G11B27/10; G11B27/102; G11B27/105; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/34; G11B7/00; G11B7/002; G11B7/0037; G11B7/007; G11B7/00745; G10H2240/00; G10H2240/121; G10H2240/131; G10H2250/00; G10H2250/541; G10H2250/571; G10H2250/591; G10H2250/595; G11B2020/10537; G11B2020/10592; G11B2220/00; G11B2220/20; G11B2220/21; G11B2220/213; G11B2220/25; G11B2220/2537; G11B2220/2545; G11B2220/2558; G11B2220/40; G11B2220/41

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 89 words
An information storage medium comprising a storage area which stores digital audio information including a plurality of music piece information, and a digital contents information table including a plurality of digital contents information which are related to the contents of said plurality of music piece information, said storage area being divided into a plurality of sections including a first group of sections and a second group of sections, said first group of sections storing said digital contents information table, said second group of sections storing said digital audio information.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 22 words
An information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein said first group of sections precedes said second group of sections in time.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 125 words
An information storage medium comprising a storage area which stores digital audio information including a plurality of music piece information, each of said plurality of music piece information having accompaniment information and mark information for retrieving said accompaniment information, and a digital contents information table including a plurality of music title information which represent titles of said plurality of music piece information with image information or voice sound information, said storage area being divided into a plurality of sections including a first group of sections and a second group of sections, said first group of section preceding said second group of sections in time, said first group of sections storing said digital contents information table, said second group of sections storing said digital audio information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 26 words
An information storage medium according to claim 1, wherein said information storage medium includes an optical storage disk according to Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation system.
Claim 5
Independent Claim 134 words
An apparatus for reproducing information from an information storage medium which comprises a storage area which stores digital audio information including a plurality of music piece information, and a digital contents information table including a plurality of digital contents information which are related to the contents of said plurality of music piece information, said storage area being divided into a plurality of sections including a first group of sections and a second group of sections, said first group of sections storing said digital contents information table, said second group of sections storing said digital audio information, said apparatus comprising: information reading means for reading information from said information storage medium; and control means for controlling said information reading means to selectively read one of said plurality of accompaniment information based on said mark information.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 24 words
An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said information storage medium includes an optical storage disk according to Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation system.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 83 words
An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising: information display means for displaying said plurality of music title information; command input means for inputting command to select a desired music title information which corresponds to a desired accompanimnet information to be reproduced; accoustoelectric transducer means for transducing voice sound sung in relation to said acoompaniment information into electric voice information; and information mixing means for mixing said accompaniment information with said electric voice information; said music title information corresponding to said mark information.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 16 words
An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said information display means includes a cathode ray tube.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 18 words
An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said information display means is unified with said command input means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 19 words
An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said command input means includes a transparent touch panel type input unit.

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