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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1996
Hidenori Aotake, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information recording medium having recorded thereon picture information and/or speech information, a plurality of items consisting of the picture information and/or the speech information, and reproduction control information comprised of a plurality of lists for controlling the reproduction of the items, wherein at least a portion of the lists includes item information specifying one or more items reproduced in accordance with the lists and pointers represented by an offset from a leading end of the reproduction control information specifying another list to be linked, and wherein at least one of the lists is a first list including the item information specifying the one or more items, a plurality of pointers associated with plural lists branched according to a user selection and a plurality of region data defining regions of alternatives for menu display of the contents of the pointers according to a priority sequence.