Patent ID: 8280219
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information converting apparatus, comprising: additional information retrieval means for retrieving additional information incidental to moving image data stored on a stream file having a first recording format corresponding to the AVCHD standard; additional information converting means for converting the retrieved additional information in accordance with a second recording format corresponding to one of the digital versatile disk standard and the Blu-ray disk standard, and, in response to the second recording format corresponding to the Blu-ray disk standard, converting the retrieved additional information into a second segment of one of a plurality of packetized elementary stream packets of a Blu-ray disk standard stream file, the second segment following a first segment that defines a display style of the additional information, the second segment being of another of the plurality of packetized elementary stream packets of the Blu-ray disk standard stream file; and additional information recording control means for controlling recording of the converted additional information onto a stream file having the second recording format.