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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1996
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An interactive recording/reproducing medium including: image data; image reproduction control data which defines an operation instruction received from operation input apparatus and a reproduction procedure for the image data in correlation with each other, the operation input apparatus performing a reproducing operation for the image data in an interactive manner; image related data related to the contents of the image data; and relation defining information which defines the relation between the image related data and the image data. More particularly, an interactive recording/reproducing system which is interactively responsive to operations made by a user, which defines information such as text data (e.g., ASCII text) in association with an image and reproduces the text data simultaneously with reproduction of the image. An optical disk medium comprises a Video-CD recording area for recording image data (e.g. dynamic images, static images, voice) which conform to a basic Video-CD standard, a PC data recording area for recording text data associated with the image data, and a reproduction application recording area for recording a program to effect reproduction using a PC (personal computer). A Video-CD reproducing system and a PC can be alternatively used to perform reproduction using a content of the optical disk medium.