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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Masafumi Nakamura, Yokohama, JP;
Toshifumi Takeuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Transmitting and recording methods, a reproducing method, and a reproducing apparatus of compressed video and audio signals which can easily realize a retrieval on a picture group unit basis. Packs are formed from a stream of compressed video and audio data and independent data. The pack is divided into a minimum unit of a data structure peculiar to a medium. When transmitting through or recording on the medium, information indicating whether or not a boundary of a picture group exists in the minimum unit is described in a sub information portion in a frame signal and is transmitted or recorded. Upon reproduction, by using the information which had been added to the sub information portion and was transmitted or recorded, the video data can be retrieved at a high speed every predetermined unit.