Patent ID: RE39652

Claim:
A multi-media information playback device which plays back multi-media information recorded in a recording medium comprising: (a) a disc recording medium having pieces of page information successively stored in a storage area, each piece of page information being made up of multi-media information that describes contents of a plurality of screen images, the page information including: (1) a partial image list having a pair of partial image information showing a partial image of a screen image and display state information showing display state of the partial image, and (2) control information which describes a command to be executed according to an input signal, including a display state change command instructing to change the display state of the partial image; (b) a page information read means for reading a piece of page information from the disc recording medium ; (c) a display data creation means for creating display data of the screen image by placing the partial image shown by the partial image information on a screen; (d) a display means for displaying each display data created by the display data creation means; (e) an input means for receiving an input signal from an operator; and (f) a command execution means for detecting the input signal inputted by the operator, judging whether the input signal corresponds to the command described by the control information in the page information read by the page information read means, and instructing the display data creation means to create new display data by changing the display state of the corresponding partial image according to the display state change command when the input signal corresponds to the display state change command; wherein the display data creation means creates new display data according to the command execution means.