Patent ID: 7444062

Claim:
A playback apparatus comprising: playback means for playing back image data of a plurality of titles from a recording medium; display means for displaying an image indicated by the image data played back by said playback means; output means for outputting said played-back image data to an external display device; instruction means for instructing the display means to display a representative image list showing a representative image of the image data of the plurality of titles recorded on the recording medium; image data selection means for selecting image data of a desired title from among the image data of the plurality of titles shown on the representative image list displayed on the display means in order that the playback means plays back the selected image data from the recording medium; and control means for controlling, in response to an instruction given from the image data selection means to the play-back means to play back the selected image data, the display means to display an image indicated by the selected and played-back image data instead of the representative image list while the output means outputs the selected and played-back image data, wherein, in response to an instruction to display the representative image list, given by the instruction means while the output means outputs the played-back image data, the control means controls the display means to display the representative image list while the output means outputs the played-back image data.