Patent ID: 7050702
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information recording medium configured to store (i) a video file or an audio file including an object including object units, and (ii) a management file including navigation data, for controlling the object in the video file or in the audio file, said navigation data being information arranged in an order of: (a) video management information, (b) movie audio/video file information table including movie audio/video file information table information, movie video object stream information and movie audio/video file information, said movie audio/video file information including movie video object information, said movie video object information including general information, seamless information, audio gap information and time map information, said time map information including information on each of the object units, the information on each of the object units including data size information on each of the object units, and said navigation data includes many pieces of cell information representing cells and referring to said time map information, the cell information including cell type information for discriminating a cell type and an object information search pointer number corresponding to the cell type, (c) original program chain information designating a fixed reproduction order of a part of the cells while keeping an original reproduction order of said object units unchanged, (d) new program chain information serving as user-defined program chain information in the management file, the new program chain information designating a reproduction order of other part of the cells, the reproduction order of the cells being different from the fixed reproduction order designated by the original program chain information, and (e) a manufacturer's information table, recorded as a last block, for storing manufacturer's information.