Patent ID: 7840113

Claim:
An optical disk reproducing apparatus that plays back information recorded on an optical disk, comprising: a system controller including: a user operation recognition unit that, when a user operation is performed during reproducing of information recorded on the optical disk, recognizes the user operation; an operation restriction/permission determination unit that, if the recognized user operation is skip up/skip down, determines whether the skip up/skip down is restricted/permitted on the basis of user operation control information included in navigation pack of control information recorded on the optical disk; a unit detecting the number of key pressing times that, if the recognized user operation is skip up/skip down, detects the number of skip up key pressing times/the number of skip down key pressing times; an argument calculation unit that sets a title number that has been played back immediately before the key pressing as a title number m designated as an argument of PTT_Play (m, n) and calculates a chapter number n designated as an argument of PTT_Play (m, n) on the basis of an equation of n=a+b−c assuming that a chapter number that has been played back immediately before the key pressing is ‘a’, the number of skip up key pressing times that has been detected is ‘b’, and the number of skip down key pressing times that has been detected is ‘c’; a reproducing pause unit that, if it is determined by the operation restriction/permission determination unit that the skip up/skip down is restricted, pauses the reproducing; and an afterpause reproducing unit that, after the reproducing is paused by the reproducing pause unit, designates both the title number and the chapter number on the basis of the argument and then performs PTT_Play(m, n), which is a process of performing a search, so as to reproduce designated information; and a controller that is operated in accordance with an instruction of the system controller.