Patent ID: 7725007
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: G11B,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A reproducing apparatus which reproduces data from a recording medium having a first region and a second region, comprising: a pickup which reads, from the first region, still picture data for a plurality of still pictures, and reads, from the second region, at least one still picture group information; and a controller which controls the pickup to read the still picture data and at least one still picture group information, uses the read at least one still picture group information to arrange the read still pictures into at least one still picture group, to determine from the read at least one still picture group information sizes of the still pictures in the arranged one still picture group and start position information of the one still picture group so as to manage the still pictures at a group level, and to reproduce the managed still pictures according to the read at least one still picture group information.