Patent ID: 7187850

Claim:
A reproduction control circuit for use in a reproduction apparatus for reproducing information stored on an optical disk, the optical disk includes an audio data storage area, a still picture storage area and a management area, wherein a plurality of pieces of audio data for at least one audio program are stored in the audio data storage area, a plurality of pieces of still picture data are stored in the still picture storage area, and a reproduction control information is stored in the management area, the reproduction control information defines a reproduction order of the plurality of pieces audio data and a display order of the plurality of pieces of still picture data to be displayed simultaneously with the reproduction of the plurality of pieces audio data, the reproduction order of the plurality of pieces audio data and the display order of the plurality of pieces of still picture data are defined separately by the reproduction control information, and the reproduction control information has specified still picture information indicating specified still picture data to be independently displayed at a specified operation regardless of the display order of the plurality of pieces of still picture data, and the reproduction apparatus includes a reading section for reading the plurality of pieces of audio data, the plurality of pieces of still picture data and the reproduction control information from the optical disk, the reproduction control circuit comprising: a receiving section for receiving the plurality of pieces of audio data, the plurality of pieces of still picture data and the reproduction control information from the reading section; and a reproduction control section for controlling a reproduction order of the plurality of pieces audio data and a display order of the plurality of pieces of still picture data to be displayed simultaneously with the reproduction of the plurality of pieces audio data in accordance with the reproduction control information, wherein the reproduction control section specifies the specified still picture data among the plurality of pieces of still picture data in accordance with the specified still picture information.