Patent ID: 8488946

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus, comprising: a reference signal unit configured to output a reference signal; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a first stream of data that represents a main image to be reproduced on a display under control of said reference signal, a second stream of data that represents a menu to be displayed with said main image, said second stream being asynchronous with said first stream, and said menu including an item that is user-selectable; and reproducing control information; an operation receiving unit to receive an operation request when the item in said menu is selected; and a reproducing control unit configured to control reproduction of said main image from said first stream, and the menu from said second stream based on said reproducing control information, wherein the reproducing control unit is configured to display the main image as a video and to simultaneously display the menu; and said reproducing control unit is configured to pause reproduction of the video in response to acquiring a first portion of the reproducing control information, and to control the operation receiving unit to execute, while the video is paused, a computer-implemented operation in response to the item in said menu being selected.