Patent ID: 9336828
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing information for managing reproduction of video data, comprising: providing management information for associating metadata with the video data, wherein the management information includes link information that is used for retrieving the metadata from a stream, the metadata being additional information describing the video data; providing a metadata indicator for indicating whether or not the metadata exists in the stream, wherein the metadata indicator indicates that the metadata associated with the video data exists in the stream when the metadata indicator has a first metadata indicator value, wherein the metadata indicator indicates that the metadata associated with the video data does not exist in the stream when the metadata indicator has a second metadata indicator values, wherein the metadata indicator is a flag, and wherein a single metadata is capable of being associated with plural video data, or plural metadata are capable of being associated with a single video data.