Patent ID: 9191645
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is stored a computer program which, when executed, causes a computer to perform a process comprising: recording, to a recording medium, surround audio information; and recording, to said recording medium, video content including a stereoscopic video comprising a left-eye video and a right-eye video utilizing parallax video, said video content being constituted by digital video information including an I picture that is data-compressed within a frame, a P picture that is data-compressed with motion compensation from said I picture in a preceding direction in time, and a B picture that is data-compressed with motion compensation from said I picture or P picture in a preceding/following direction in time, wherein said video content includes a flat video constituted by only one of the left-eye video and the right-eye video and a stereoscopic video using both of the left-eye video and the right-eye video, which are present in a mixed manner in said digital video information, wherein supplementary information is recorded on said recording medium to produce varied sound-image localizations of a same surround audio in a depth or protruding direction from a screen for a plurality of corresponding stereoscopic viewing modes for viewing the same video content according to different parallax values during listening of the surround audio information related to stereoscopic video information of the stereoscopic video, and wherein the same recorded left-eye video, the same recorded right-eye video, and the same surround audio are used for viewing the same video content in each of the plurality of stereoscopic viewing modes with the corresponding sound-image localization.