Patent ID: 7076155

Claim:
An information storage medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, said data including control information and video object data, the information storage medium comprising: a data area configured to store: a plurality of error correction code blocks including the video object data, said video object data being configured to be recorded in at least one of the object units, wherein a predetermined number of sectors form each error correction code block, and each of said sectors has a predetermined size; and a control information recording area configured to store said control information, the control information being configured to manage the video object data and including an AV file information table having a first area configured to store object stream information, and a second area configured to store AV file information configured to manage the video object data, the AV file information including a plurality of object information and a plurality of object information search pointers associated with the plurality of object information, wherein: an error correction code block address corresponds to the predetermined number of said sectors, said video object data being allocated with an integral multiple of said predetermined number of said sectors, each said object information includes time map information including time map general information, one or more time entries, and one or more object unit entries, and each object unit entry includes size information of a first reference picture of a corresponding object unit of the video object data, wherein the recording/reproducing apparatus employs the control information to manage the video object data.