Patent ID: 7085478

Claim:
An optical disc which is readable by a reproducing apparatus that preliminarily reads a table and performs a random access reproduction of a video object by referring to the table, the optical disc including a data area and a time map area, the data area having recorded therein a video object that includes a plurality of data units, each of which contains at least one picture, and the time map area having recorded therein the table showing recording addresses of data units, the recording addresses corresponding to a plurality of reproduction times that belong to a period during which the video object is reproduced, each of the data units containing a picture to be reproduced at a corresponding one of the plurality of reproduction times, wherein the table has recorded therein difference times, each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of reproduction times shown in the table and is a difference between the one of the plurality of reproduction times and a reproduction time of a first picture of a data unit that includes a picture to be reproduced at the one of the plurality of reproduction times.