Patent ID: 6611656
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An information recording medium for recording at least one object and management information for managing the recorded object, each object comprising a plurality of object units each having an address indicative of a location on the medium, the management information including program chain information and object information,wherein the program chain information includes a sequence of cell information, each cell information indicating a playback section of one of the at least one object as a cell and including playback section information indicating start and end portions of a part or whole of the associated object, and wherein the object information is provided for each recorded object, and wherein the medium is provided for recording at last one type of object that is a stream object comprising a plurality of object units each having a sector containing a transport packet, the cell information further includes information indicating that the type of the object with which the cell is associated is a stream object having a transport packet, the object information includes a plurality of kinds of information in a form depending on the type of the associated object, the plurality of kinds of information including map information for obtaining an address of each object unit, and the object information associated with the stream object includes starting time information and ending time information respectively indicating a starting time and an ending time of the associated stream object.