Patent ID: 6842578

Claim:
An optical disk having digital image information recorded thereon, at least a portion of said digital image information being accessed by a playback device during playback to reproduce images, the digital image information comprising an image information block including I-picture data for intra-frame coded pictures, P-picture data for predictive coded pictures, and B-picture data for bidirectionally predictive coded pictures, said disk comprising: a plurality of recording sectors, each sector being associated with an address recorded on said optical disk; and a plurality of tracks, each track including a plurality of recording sectors; wherein the image information block includes a video attribute data region preceding the I-picture data, the P-picture data, and the B-picture data thereof, said video attribute data region containing picture arrangement or position information, which indicates an arrangement or position of coded pictures in the corresponding image information block on accessing during playback to read at least I-picture data of the digital image information in the corresponding image information block, jump destination information, which indicates an address the next image information block to be played back during said playback to read at least I-picture data, and information that is accessed by said playback device during said playback to read at least I-picture data, said information being for indicating to said playback device whether the corresponding image information block should be reproduced.