Patent ID: 6141491
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: G06T,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A recorded medium on which moving picture data is recorded, said moving picture data coded with high efficiency in accordance with a moving picture experts group (MPEG) method in which an I picture frame to which an intraframe coding is applied is at least present, said moving picture data including a plurality of sequence headers and a plurality of groups of pictures (GOPs), each of said plurality of sequence headers being followed by one or more GOPs, said GOPs including at least one said I picture frame and starting with at least said I picture frame,a recording area of the recorded medium being divided into a plurality of sectors, each sector of said plurality of sectors having a sector header and a data field which follows said sector header, each sector header having an MPEG system header which is located at the end of each sector header;the recorded medium comprising:said moving picture data being recorded in said recorded medium in such a way that a recorded position of each sequence header of said plurality of sequence headers of said moving picture data comes just after said MPEG system header and matches a head position of said data field of a sector which is one of said plurality of sectors in said recorded medium.