US 7,403,695 B2
Digital information recording/playback system and digital information recording medium
Shinichi Kikuchi, Yokohama (Japan); Masafumi Tamura, Chofu (Japan); Hideo Ando, Hino (Japan); Shuichi Hisatomi, Fuchu (Japan); Mitsuyuki Nozaki, Toshima-ku (Japan); Kazuhiko Taira, Yokohama (Japan); and Yuji Ito, Ota-ku (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki-shi (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 05, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/357,740.
Application 10/357740 is a division of application No. 09/621812, filed on Jul. 21, 2000, granted, now 6,553,180.
Application 09/621812 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP99/00210, filed on Jan. 21, 1999.
Claims priority of application No. 10-009907 (JP), filed on Jan. 21, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2003/0147629 A1, Aug. 07, 2003
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/781 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 386—95  [386/111; 386/125] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program, said medium comprising:
a data area configured to store video data; and
a management area configured to store control information, the control information including:
program chain information associated with one of a plurality of program chains, said program chain information describing an order of reproduction of individual cells, plural cells of the cells being able to form a program, another one of the program chains being able to be identified by a representative picture, and
a table including at least one representative picture relating information, the representative picture relating information including,
information corresponding to a portion of said another one of the program chains, said representative picture identifying said another one of the program chains, and
information corresponding to a location of said representative picture in said data area, the location information including time information or address information, wherein,
said representative picture is a picture included in said video data, and
a portion of said one of the program chains and another portion of said another one of the program chains are configured to refer to a same portion of the video data.