Patent ID: 7027711

Claim:
An editing apparatus for an optical disk on which a video object made up of a plurality of blocks and section information are recorded, each block including a plurality of sets of picture data, and the section information specifying a reproduction section from a set of picture data included in a block to a set of picture data included in another block, the editing apparatus comprising: a specifying unit operable to specify a set of picture data as a start point of a delete section and another set of picture data as an end point of the delete section in the reproduction section, in accordance with an indication from a user; a judging unit operable to judge whether j−i−1>u or j−i−1<u, j−i−1 being a total number of blocks present between an ith block which includes the start point and a jth block which includes the end point, i and j being integers, and u being a predetermined integer; a warning unit operable to give a warning to the user, when j−i−1<u; and a partial deleting unit operable to rewrite, when j−i−1>u, the section information so that part of the reproduction section preceding the delete section and part of the reproduction section succeeding the delete section become two consecutive reproduction sections, and delete blocks from an (i+s+1)th block to a (j−t−1)th block from the optical disk, s and t being integers that satisfy u=s+t.