Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yumiko Taga

Teiichi Ichikawa

Kazuhiko Taira

Hideo Ando

Hideki Mimura

Yasufumi Tsumagari

Yoichiro Yamagata

Minoru Ohta

An information reproduction method comprises setting an imaginary access unit in a video object in which a still picture is recorded; and managing reproduction by use of the imaginary access unit.

Information storage medium, information reproduction device, information reproduction method

An information recording method of recording object information (VOB) and reproducing control information (PGC) is provided. In this method, while the object information is recorded, the reproducing control information (PGC) defining a method of reproducing the object information and further defining a predetermined command executed according to a predetermined operation of a user is recorded in an information recording medium, and a desired reproducing action can be carried out by allocating an arbitrary command and the like to an arbitrary operation.

Information storage medium having a program chain command table structure

In a picture data recording method of an aspect of this invention, main picture data having a first resolution, sub-picture data having the first resolution, and sub-picture data having a second resolution lower than the first resolution are compressed, packets are formed from the compressed data in accordance with predetermined units and multiplexed, and the multiplexed data is recorded on a recording medium.

Picture data recording method, picture data storage medium, picture data playback apparatus, and picture data playback method

According to one embodiment, an information recording medium includes a video object area for recording a video object formed of video object units which is a minimum unit for reproduction, and a highlight information pack which is included in the video object unit.

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Kamakura, Japan

Yumiko Taga