Patent ID: 7366400

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus to reproduce data from a storage medium having a first region, a second region, and a third region, comprising: an optical pickup to read at least one of a plurality of still pictures from the first region, at least one still picture group information indicating an arrangement of the still pictures in the first region into a number of groups so as to manage the still pictures at a group level and which is read from the second region, and at least one of a plurality of additional audio parts to be reproduced with the still pictures from the third region, the at least one still picture group information including information for connectivity between the still pictures in the first region and the corresponding additional audio parts in the third region and at least one still picture information for the still pictures and which includes at least one flag providing first virtual deletion information; and a controller which controls the optical pickup to read the at least one still picture, the at least one still picture group information, and the at least one additional audio part, reproduces the read at least one still picture with the read at least one additional audio part according to the connectivity indicated in the read at least one still picture group information and the read first virtual deletion information of the corresponding read at least one still picture information, and, if the first virtual deletion information is set to a virtual delete state, does not reproduce a virtually deleted one of the still pictures upon playback of the storage medium.