Patent ID: 6539164
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A video disk playback device for playing back from a video disk on which high-efficiency coded data of a digital video signal is recorded, said digital video signal being a succession of image signals of several frames comprising in combination one or more of an I-picture coded within the frame, a P picture inter-frame coded by forward motion compensation with reference to the I picture or another P picture, and B pictures inter-frame coded by both directional motion compensation with reference to the I and/or P pictures positioned in front and at the back, said device comprising:an information table memory containing identification information identifying user specified video sequences including information indicating the beginning of sequence headers that define formatting parameters needed to reproduce selected video sequences to be played back to enable reproduction of a selected series of images, the user specified video sequences having user specifiable start and end points, wherein said images are selected through user selection of identification information identifying the desired video sequences to be reproduced; and a playback device responsive to the identification information and reproducing only the selected video sequences identified thereby, thereby enabling user editing of the video images output from said video disk.