INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS, INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD, AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK PROGRAM

• US 20070101265A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hideo Ando, Takero Kobayashi, Yasufumi Tsumagari
• Original Assignee: Hideo Ando, Takero Kobayashi, Yasufumi Tsumagari
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takero, Tsumagari, Yasufumi, Ando, Hideo
• Application Number:
  US11/564,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20070101265A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2579 HD-DVDs [high definition DVDs]; AODs [advanced optical discs]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information playback apparatus includes an advanced content playback unit configured to play back an advanced content, and the advanced content playback unit includes a navigation manager unit configured to manage playback of video information and audio information which form the advanced content, and an AV renderer unit configured to combine the video information and the audio information.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. An information playback apparatus comprising an advanced content playback unit configured to play back an advanced content,

wherein the advanced content playback unit comprises:

a navigation manager unit configured to manage playback of video information and audio information which form the advanced content; and

an AV renderer unit configured to combine the video information and the audio information;

wherein the advanced content playback unit composes a main video plane and a sub video plane included in the video information.

3. An information playback method to be applied to an information playback apparatus which comprises an advanced content playback unit including a navigation manager unit and an AV renderer unit, comprising:

managing playback of video information and audio information which form an advanced content by the navigation manager unit;

composing a main video plane and a sub video plane included in the video information; and

combining the video information and the audio information.