Patent ID: 7215874

Claim:
An apparatus for reproducing information from an information recording medium, the information recording medium comprising, a data area configured to store said audio/video data included in a video object: and a management area separate from said data area and configured to store said control information, wherein said control information includes movie AV file information having movie video object information corresponding to said video object, said movie AV file information includes M_AVFI general information and one or more movie VOBI search pointers, said movie video object information includes movie video object general information containing temporary erase information of said video object, said video object is configured to be set at a temporarily erased state, said temporarily erased state indicated by said temporary erase information, said control information includes original PGC information having one or more pieces of cell information and one or more cell information search pointers, said cell information corresponding to cells, said original PGC information includes PGC general information having number information of said cell information search pointers, one piece of said cell information includes cell general information and one or more pieces of cell entry point information corresponding to cell entry points of one of said cells, said cell general information includes information of cell type, information describing a number of said cell entry point information, information describing a presentation start time, and information describing a presentation end time, one piece of said cell entry point information includes type information of one of said cell entry points and information of a presentation time for one of said cell entry points, one piece of said cell information includes movie VOBI search pointer numeral information corresponding to said video object of one of said cells, said control information includes a video manager information management table having disc representative picture information, and said disc representative picture information includes numeral information corresponding to one of said cells, said apparatus comprising: a first reproducer configured to reproduce said control information from the management area; and a second reproducer configured to reproduce said audio/video data from the data area.