Patent ID: 8208790

Claim:
A method for recording a main-view video stream, a sub-view video stream, a graphics stream, and playlist information on a recording medium, comprising: generating the main-view video stream including main-view pictures, the main-view pictures constituting main views of stereoscopic video images; generating the sub-view video stream including sub-view pictures, the sub-view pictures constituting sub-views of the stereoscopic video images; generating the graphics stream including graphics data, the graphics data constituting monoscopic graphics images; generating the playlist information; recording the main-view video stream, the sub-view video stream, and the graphics stream on the recording medium; and recording the playlist information on the recording medium, wherein each of the main-view pictures is rendered on a main-view video plane when played back, each of the sub-view pictures is rendered on a sub-view video plane when played back, the graphics data is rendered on a graphics plane when played back, the sub-view video stream includes a plurality of groups of pictures, each of the plurality of groups of pictures includes metadata including a plurality of pieces of offset information and a plurality of offset identifiers, the plurality of pieces of offset information being in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of offset identifiers, each of the plurality of pieces of offset information is control information defining offset control for a plurality of pictures constituting a group of pictures, the offset control is a process to provide a left offset and a right offset for horizontal coordinates in the graphics plane to generate a graphics plane shifted left and a graphics plane shifted right, and then combine the graphics plane shifted left and the graphics plane shifted right with the main-view video plane and the sub-view video plane, respectively, or, then combine the graphics plane shifted left and the graphics plane shifted right with the sub-view video plane and the main-view video plane, respectively, a piece of playback section information includes (i) information indicating a playback start time and a playback end time and (ii) a stream selection table corresponding to the playback section, the stream selection table is a correspondence table associating stream numbers with packet identifiers for streams, playbacks of the streams being permitted in the playback section, and when the stream selection table includes a stream number associated with a packet identifier of the graphics stream, one of the plurality of offset identifiers is associated with the stream number.