Patent ID: 7801002

Claim:
A reproducing device for reproducing information recorded on an information recording medium comprising: a system controller that decides whether a user operation is inhibited or permitted when there is the user operation during reproducing the information of the information recording medium, and controls a reproduction to be temporarily stopped when the user operation is inhibited, and then, a process by the user operation to be performed and designated information to be reproduced; and a controller that is operated in accordance with an instruction of the system controller, wherein the system controller includes: a user operation recognizing unit for recognizing a user operation when there is the user operation while the information of the information recording medium is reproduced; an operation inhibition/permission deciding unit for deciding whether the recognized user operation is inhibited or permitted in accordance with user operation control information included in a navigation pack of control information on the information recording medium; a reproduction temporarily stopping unit for temporarily stopping a reproduction when the operation inhibition/permission deciding unit decides that the user operation is inhibited; and a reproducing unit after stop for performing a process by the user operation and reproducing designated information after the reproduction is temporarily stopped by the reproduction temporarily stopping unit.