Patent ID: 6341196
Filing Date: 2002-01-22
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An information recording method of recording data on an information recording medium, comprising the steps of:recording a video file or audio file including an information object comprising object units including video data or audio data constituted by at least one program; recording management information in a management file, for controlling a selection of the information object in the video file or in the audio file, said management information including object information including a plurality of object search pointer numbers, and a plurality of object information corresponding to the object search pointer numbers, the plurality of object information including time map information designating a reproduction order of the object units, and a cell information representing a cell and referring to said time map information, the cell information including a cell type information for discriminating cell type and the object search pointer number corresponding to the cell type; recording original program chain information designating a fixed reproduction order of the cells while keeping an original reproduction order of said object units unchanged; recording new chain information as user-defined program chain information in the management file, the new chain information designating a reproduction order of the cells and this reproduction order of the cells is different from a fixed reproduction order designated by the original program chain information.