Patent ID: 8081861
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disc apparatus comprising: an optical pickup unit for irradiating a laser beam onto an optical disc to record/reproduce data on/from the optical disc which has recorded therein a Video Title Set Time Map Table (VTS_TMAPT), including Time Unit (TMU) data, and a video title including cells formed of Video Object Units (VOBUs) according to DVD-VIDEO format, each VOBU having video data and Navi Pack data including Video Object Unit Search Information (VOBU_SRI) data; a laser driver for outputting a laser modulation signal to the optical pickup to drive the optical pickup; a servo controller for controlling focus and tracking of the optical pickup; a memory unit storing a program; and a main controller for controlling the optical disc apparatus based on the program, wherein the main controller comprises: a search address calculating unit for calculating address of a destination VOBU, to which the optical pickup is to be moved, based on a designated search time designated by a user and the VOBU_SRI data in the Navi Pack data of a VOBU corresponding to a current position of the optical pickup; a VOBU reading unit for moving the optical pickup to a destination cell to which the address of the destination VOBU calculated by the search address calculating unit belongs, so as to read a cell time which is a time from the beginning of the video title to the beginning of the destination cell and is recorded in the destination cell, and for moving the optical pickup to a position corresponding to the address of the destination VOBU so as to read a VOBU time which is a time from the beginning of the destination cell to the beginning of the destination VOBU and is recorded in the Navi Pack data of the destination VOBU, and also read a reproduction time length which is of the video data of the destination VOBU and is recorded in the Navi Pack data of the destination VOBU; a search time comparing unit for calculating reproduction start time and reproduction end time of the video data from the beginning of the video title, based on the cell time, the VOBU time and the reproduction time length of the video data read by the VOBU reading unit, so as to compare the designated search time with a reproduction time zone of the video data of the destination VOBU from the reproduction start time to the reproduction end time of the video data of the destination VOBU; and a VOBU determining unit for determining, based on a result of the comparison performed by the search time comparing unit, whether the designated search time belongs to the reproduction time zone of the video data of the destination VOBU, so as to find a VOBU having a reproduction time zone of video data to which the designated search time belongs, and thereby to move the optical pickup to a position corresponding to the designated search time.