Pioneer Corporation

Tomoyasu Yamada

Takayuki Iijima

Katsuaki Yamanoi

Shinichiro Abe

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Tomoko Miyagawa

Yoji Shumura

Junichi Fukamachi

Management information is read from an information storage medium having the management information recorded thereon, the management information including track number information imparted to at least one track and group management information for managing as selective recording information one or a plurality of tracks as one group. Judgment is then made upon whether the group management information is included in that management information. A display mode is changed depending on a case where the group management information is recorded and a case where it is not recorded, and it is then displayed in a displaying device.

Editing device capable of changing the displaying mode of management information

Editing device capable of displaying logical positions of tracks

When a detection device detects any kind of change regarding track recording after the start of the track recording, a grouping instruction is given to information attaching and generating device. Then, the information attaching and generating device attaches the same group name information to a group, in which a track where the recording has been started in an information recording medium to a track recorded at the point when the grouping instruction has been received are made to be the same group, and group control information is generated. Therefore, since the grouping is automatically performed by any kind of change regarding the track recording, a user can omit the operation that he/she performs the grouping by himself/herself, and thus the operation load of the user can be reduced.

Information recording apparatus including information attaching and generating device which generates group control information

Editing device capable of imparting group management information to each recording track

Apparatus for editing management information to be recorded on an information storage medium

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Kawagoe, Japan

Tomoyasu Yamada