INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD USING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION INCLUDING MAPPING INFORMATION

• US 20130142496A1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Haruhiko Toyama, Hideo Ando, Takero Kobayashi, Yasufumi Tsumagari
• Original Assignee: Haruhiko Toyama, Hideo Ando, Takero Kobayashi, Yasufumi Tsumagari
• Inventors: ANDO, Hideo, TSUMAGARI, Yasufumi, KOBAYASHI, Takero, TOYAMA, Haruhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/749,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20130142496A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• 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 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of each video title being individually defined, and playing back objects of each video title in accordance with the title timeline defined in the readout management information.

Claims

1. :

An information reproducing method, comprising;

reproducing management information, the management information including mapping information that manages presentation timings and presentation sizes on a screen for presenting objects of a video title, the mapping information describing presentation start and end timings of each of the objects in a form of mapping on a title timeline, the mapping information including resource information that records information indicating which resource files that record information needed to present the objects are to be used; and

obtaining the resource files indicated by the resource information to present the objects on a screen of a display at the presentation timings and presentation sizes indicated by the mapping information.

2. :

An information reproducing method, comprising;

reproducing management information, the management information including resource information indicating different locations of resources to be presented on a timeline; and

obtaining the resources from the different locations according to the resource information to reproduce contents of the resource files on the timeline.

3. :

The method according to claim 2, further comprising;

transferring the resources from the different locations according to the management information.

4. :

The method according to claim 2, further comprising;

displaying contents of objects according to the management information.

5. :

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method according to claim 2.