Patent ID: 8446801

Claim:
A reading apparatus for reading data from a digital versatile disc, the reading apparatus comprising: specification means for specifying a predetermined position of content read from the digital versatile disc based on a resume-stopping operation indicating the predetermined position input by a user when the content is being read, wherein the user inputs the resume-stopping operation to select any point in time in the content being read from the digital versatile disk as the predetermined position; generation means for generating information indicating a predetermined portion of the content from a position specified by the specification means, the predetermined portion being a portion of the content on the digital versatile disc of a predetermined size following the predetermined position; storage means for reading the predetermined portion from the digital versatile disc on the basis of the information generated by the generation means and for storing the predetermined portion on a storage medium different from the digital versatile disc when the resume-stopping is input by the user; and reading control means for controlling reading of data from the storage medium and the digital versatile disc based on a resume playback input by the user so that the data of the predetermined portion from the position specified by the specification means, the predetermined portion being stored on the storage medium, is read and data subsequent to the data read from the storage medium is read from the digital versatile disc if reading of the content from the position specified by the specification means is requested.