Patent ID: 6266483
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
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,wherein the object information is provided for each recorded object, andwherein the medium is provided for recording two or more types of objects including a type indicative of a movie object and a type indicative of a still picture object,the cell information further includes type information indicating a type of the object with which the cell is associated, andthe 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.