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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2002
Akira Date, Kunitachi, JP;
Masahiro Kageyama, Hachioji, JP;
Tamotsu Ito, Ayase, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a procedure for controlling a computer to play back a storage medium storing one or more still pictures and still picture group management information for managing one or more still pictures as a still picture group. The procedure including reading out the still picture management information from the still picture group management information in said storage medium. The still picture group management information is classified into a first type of still picture management information, a second type of still picture management information a third type of still picture management information on a still picture with only a post-recorded audio added to the still picture already recorded, or a fourth type of still picture management information. The still picture management information has a data size designated by the type.