Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method

• US 8,208,788 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2006
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ando, Hideo, Shuto, Eita, Tsumagari, Yasufumi, Toyama, Haruhiko, Kobayashi, Takero
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Andy
• Application Number:
  US11/563,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20070206926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,040 Days
• Field of Search: 386/240, 386/241, 386/248
• US Class Current: 386/240
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/12 Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers within interface between computers and data recorders G06F3/06
• 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 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440263 by altering the spatial resolution, e.g. for displaying on a connected PDA
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4825 using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in the markup, and generation of an event in response to the name corresponding to the event defined in the markup using an event listener in the script, and designating function contents that execute processing when the event is generated.

Claims

1. An information reproducing apparatus for playing back an information storage medium that stores a first representation object and a second representation object according to a title, and that stores a third representation object, comprising:

a reading unit configured to read the first representation object for displaying a main video and the second representation object for displaying a sub video from the information storage medium, and to read the third representation object for displaying an icon from a memory; and

a reproducing unit configured to reproduce the first representation object based on a first playback display range on a title timeline according to the title, to reproduce the second representation object based on a second playback display range on the title timeline, and to reproduce the third representation object based on a third playback display range including the first playback display range and the second playback display range on the title timeline, and to reproduce the main video and the sub video based on reproducing control via the icon.

2. An information reproducing method of playing back an information storage medium that stores a first representation object and a second representation object according to a title, and that stores a third representation object, comprising:

reading the first representation object for displaying a main video and the second representation object for displaying a sub video from the information storage medium, and reading the third representation object for displaying an icon from a memory; and

reproducing the first representation object based on a first playback display range on a title timeline according to the title, reproducing the second representation object based on a second playback display range on the title timeline, and reproducing the third representation object based on a third playback display range including the first playback display range and the second playback display range on the title timeline, and reproducing the main video and the sub video based on reproducing control via the icon.