Panasonic Corporation

Akitoshi Kuno

Nobuhiko Yamada

A multiplexing pattern generator generates a multiplexing pattern signal indicating the order of types of data to be multiplexed. A video remaining size calculator and an audio remaining size calculator calculate, as a remaining size, the size of multiplexable data of an elementary stream. A video packet generator and an audio packet generator generate a multiplex packet containing transmission data of a predetermined size, based on the multiplexing pattern signal and the remaining size. A multiplexer generates a multiplexed stream. The video remaining size calculator and the audio remaining size calculator calculate the remaining size, based on the data size per access unit and the transmission size of transmission data. The video packet generator and the audio packet generator generate a multiplex packet, if the data type indicated by the multiplexing pattern signal shows matching, and the remaining size is equal to or larger than the transmission size.

Apparatuses and method for multiplexing elementary streams based on a multiplexing pattern indicating an order of types of data to be multiplexed

A reading control sectionreproduces information read from a recording medium, and a reproduction-operation sectionaccepts an instruction for a forward skip or a backward skip. Further, a controllermakes the skip time for one of the forward skip and the backward skip longer than the skip time for the other, determines the skip time based on one of the instruction for the forward skip and the instruction for the backward skip, and if the instruction for the forward skip and the backward skip is accepted while the information is reproduced, then stops the reproduction, moves the position in which the information is read by the skip time determined by a skip-time determination section, and resumes the reproduction after the movement of the reading position is completed.

Reproduction apparatus for shortening a user's waiting time until reproducing a beginning of a part that the user wants to view, and a reproduction method and computer readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for performing the same

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Gifu, Japan

Akitoshi Kuno