Patent ID: 8170403

Claim:
A video data reproduction apparatus, comprising: an input portion for receiving instructions from a user; a first storage unit for storing video data and management information of said video data; a second storage unit for storing a plurality of prescribed notification images in association with said instructions, respectively; a controller including a first reading portion for reading said video data stored in said first storage unit in response to said instructions, a selecting portion for selecting one of said notification images associated with a prescribed one of said instructions from said second storage unit when said prescribed instruction is input via said input portion while said video data is being output, and a second reading portion for referring to said management information to obtain specific information regarding a reproduction state of said video data in association with said prescribed instruction; said video data reproduction apparatus further comprising: a generating portion for generating data for display by superposing said specific information on said selected notification image; a combining portion for combining said data for display generated by said generating portion with said video data read by said first reading portion; and an output portion for outputting said data for display combined with said video data, wherein the selected notification image indicates chapter skip, the second reading portion reads a total number of chapters of the video data and a chapter number of the chapter to be reached by the chapter skip from chapter information included in the management information, the generating portion generates the data for display by superposing the total number of chapters and the chapter number on the selected notification image, the selected notification image includes two triangle marks serially connected in a lateral direction, and the generating portion generates the data for display by superposing the chapter number and the total number of chapters on one and the other of the two triangle marks.