Patent ID: 7457518

Claim:
An optical disk, comprising: a plurality of recording sectors; a plurality of tracks, each track including a plurality of recording sectors; digital image information recorded on the optical disk, the digital image information having 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; and a video attribute data region, said video attribute data region containing picture position information which indicates a position of at least I-picture in the image information block and jump destination information which indicates a position of the next image information block; wherein said attribute data includes a flag indicating whether the next image information block has image data to be played back, said attribute data further indicating whether the current image information block should be played back or skipped over, wherein a reproducing apparatus accesses said video attribute data during playback operation and uses said video attribute information for reproducing said digital image information.