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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tomoyuki Nonomura, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Kozuka, Neyagawa, JP;
Yoshihisa Fukushima, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiko Yamauchi, Neyagawa, JP;
Kaoru Murase, Nara, JP;
Katsuhiko Miwa, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ld., Osaka-Fu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/91 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/91 ;
Abstract
A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area includes sub-areas. Each sub-area includes addresses of objects selected from the objects in the data area, a flag indicating a random reproduction of the objects selected, and a number of repeats of the random reproduction.