| US 7,403,697 B2 | ||
| Digital video system | ||
| Shinichi Kikuchi, Yokohama (Japan); Hideo Ando, Hino (Japan); Kazuhiko Taira, Yokohama (Japan); Yuji Ito, Ota-ku (Japan); and Hideki Mimura, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki-shi (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 07, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/5,050. | ||
| Application 11/005050 is a division of application No. 10/800761, filed on Mar. 16, 2004, granted, now 7,187,848. | ||
| Application 10/800761 is a division of application No. 10/417214, filed on Apr. 17, 2003, granted, now 7,079,754. | ||
| Application 10/417214 is a division of application No. 09/623460, granted, now 6,580,872, filed on Sep. 12, 2000, previously published as PCT/JP99/03668, filed on Jul. 07, 1999. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-192064 (JP), filed on Jul. 07, 1998. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0105893 A1, May 19, 2005 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 386—95 [386/125] | 3 Claims |
| 1. A machine-readable information recording medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom
and accessed by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, said data including audio/video data and control information
for managing said audio/video data, the information recording medium comprising:
a data area configured to store said audio/video data included in one or more video objects, one of said video objects including
one or more video object units; and
a management area separate from said data area and configured to store said control information,
wherein said control information includes movie AV file information having movie video object information corresponding to
one of said video objects,
said movie AV file information includes M_AVFI general information and one or more movie VOBI search pointers,
said movie video object information includes time map information containing VOBU entry information,
said VOBU entry information includes reference picture size information,
said movie video object information includes movie video object general information containing temporary erase information
of one of said video objects,
one of said video objects is configured to be set at a temporarily erased state, said temporarily erased state indicated by
said temporary erase information,
a video object corresponding to said temporarily erased state results from a division of an original video object including
said audio/video data,
a start position of said division is set as time information,
said control information includes program chain information having cell information corresponding to a cell,
said cell information includes cell general information and one or more pieces of cell entry point information corresponding
to cell entry points of said cell,
said cell general information includes information of a type of said cell, movie VOBI search pointer numeral information corresponding
to one of said video objects of said cell, information describing a number of said cell entry point information, information
describing a presentation start time of said cell, and information describing a presentation end time of said cell,
one piece of said cell entry point information includes type information of one of said cell entry points and information
of a presentation time for one of said cell entry points, and
said information recording/reproducing apparatus accessing said control information to reproduce said audio/video data.
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