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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2000
Sunao Kawai, Toyoake, JP;
Norihisa Fujii, Tokoname, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An information generating apparatus of the invention generates disk information by a playback control information generating device based on scenario information input by a scenario information input device and stores the disk information on a storage device. The information generating apparatus also generates video file management information based on information that is found from the scenario information and stores the video file management information on the storage device. On the other hand, video or audio data that are input by a video data input device or an audio data input device are encoded by a video data encoding device or an audio data encoding device and are multiplexed by a multiplexing device. By doing so, a system stream is generated and stored on the storage device. Every one system stream is generated, the rest of the video file management information is generated and stored on the storage device. Then, the disk information, the video file management information, and the system streams are output by an output device in the order according to the format of the multimedia optical disk. Therefore, information that is structured so that it can be recorded on the multimedia optical disk, such as a DVD, can be efficiently generated in a short time.