Patent ID: 6889001
Filing Date: 2005-05-03
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A disk player for marking playback locations when images and/or sound stored in a disk storage medium are being played and for subsequently playing the images and/or the sound from the marked playback locations as playback start positions, said disk player comprising: specification data creation/storage means for creating and storing playback location specifying data for specifying the playback locations marked during playback; selection menu display means for displaying a selection menu including a plurality of choices associated with playback images corresponding to the playback locations based on the playback location specifying data stored by the specification data creation/storage means, wherein the playback images are created by reading data stored in the disk storage medium when the selection menu is displayed, generating I-picture, P-picture, and B-picture data based on the data read from the disk storage medium, and selecting a type of video data corresponding to the marked playback location for display; and data playing means for playing, when any of the choices included in the selection menu is selected, the images and/or the sound from the associated playback location as the playback start position.