Patent ID: 7187848

Claim:
An information recording medium configured to have data recorded thereon and data reproduced therefrom by an information recording/reproducing apparatus, said data including audio/video data and control information for managing said audio/video data, the information recording medium comprising: a data area configured to store said audio/video data included in one or more video objects; 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 a first video object of said video objects, 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 recording time information, said movie video object general information includes temporary erase information of the first video object of said video objects, a second video object of said video objects is configured to be set at a temporarily erased state, said temporarily erased state indicated by temporary erase information of said second video object, said second video object corresponding to said temporarily erased state and said first video object result from a division of an original video object including said audio/video data, said recording time information is updated to indicate the recording time of a head of said first video object, said control information includes program chain information having cell information corresponding to a cell, said cell information includes cell general information and one or more pieces of cell entry point information respectively corresponding to one or more cell entry points of said cell, said cell general information includes information of a type of said cell, movie VOBI search pointer numeral information corresponding to said first video object of said cell, information describing a number of said cell entry point information, information describing a presentation start time of said cell, and information describing a presentation end time of said cell, and one piece of said cell entry point information includes type information of said one of cell entry points and information of a presentation time for said one of cell entry points.