Matsushita Electric Indusrial

Gary McGill

Masayuki Kozuka

Mitsuhiro Inoue

Koichiro Endo

Phil Cooke

Mark Rogers

Yasutaka Yamada

Paul Fletcher

The object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia presentation device which, by executing a setting process for an information block, which is an address of an automatic branch, by means of an automatic discharge process for a button which stores the branch address, enables the user to understand how a branch address was selected. Command discharge condition information is stored the information block reproduction means for managing buttons which are automatically discharged at an end of a reproduction period or other such time, so that by executing a branch process by automatically selecting a button in place of a user operation, then even if there has been no user selection of a branch address before the end of the reproduction period, a branch address can be automatically selected and, by showing on the display the button which for manual selection stores a link to the same branch address, the data can be presented in a form which can readily understood by the user.

Multimedia data presentation device and editing device with automatic

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gary McGill