INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, AND NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20080298219A1
• Filed: 11/15/2006
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Takero, Tsumagari, Yasufumi, Toyama, Haruhiko, Kaneko, Toshimitsu, Nakamura, Seiichi, Mimura, Hideki, Taira, Kazuhiko, Yamagata, Yoichiro, Shuto, Eita, Kamibayashi, Tooru, Ishibashi, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/560,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20080298219A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/275.1
• 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 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

An information storage medium according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a management area in which management information to manage content is recorded and a content area in which content managed on the basis of the management information is recorded. The content area includes an object area in which a plurality of objects are recorded, and a time map area in which a time map for reproducing these objects in a specified period on a timeline is recorded. The management area includes a play list area in which a play list for controlling the reproduction of a menu and a title each composed of the objects on the basis of the time map is recorded.

Claims

1. An information storage medium comprising:

a management area in which management information to manage content is recorded; and

a content area in which content managed on the basis of the management information is recorded,

wherein the content area includes

an object area in which a plurality of objects are recorded, and

a time map area in which a time map for reproducing these objects in a specified period on a timeline is recorded, and

the management area includes

a play list area in which a play list for controlling the reproduction of a menu and a title each composed of the objects on the basis of the time map is recorded, and

enables the menu to be reproduced dynamically on the basis of the play list.

2. An information reproducing apparatus which plays back an information storage medium as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a reading unit configured to read the play list recorded on the information storage medium; and

a reproducing unit configured to reproduce the menu on the basis of the play list read by the reading unit.

3. An information reproducing method of playing back an information storage medium as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

reading the play list recorded on the information storage medium; and

reproducing the menu on the basis of the play list.

4. A network communication system comprising:

a player which reads information from an information storage medium, requests a server for playback information via a network, downloads the playback information from the server, and reproduces the information read from the information storage medium and the playback information downloaded from the server; and

a server which provides the player with playback information according to the request for playback information made by a reproducing apparatus.