Recording medium capable of interactive reproducing

Patent 6167189 Issued on December 26, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 12, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 631436 filed on 04/12/1996

US Classes:

386/95, Having another signal386/112, Digital compressing386/125Using disc

Examiners

Primary: Nguyen, Huy

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

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International Class

H04N 005/76

Foreign Application Priority Data

1995-04-14 JP

Abstract

On an optical disk, video object sets (VTST-- VOBS) to be reproduced and video title set information (VTSI) serving as management information on the video object sets have been stored. In each video object set (VTST-- VOBS), many of data cells, each containing video, audio, and sub-picture data, are arranged. Management information on programs chains, which are combinations of programs to be reproduced one after another, has been written in a video title set program chain table (VTS-- PGCIT). By referring to the PGC table (VTS-- PGCIT) according to the user's input, the playback order of the program chains can be changed, enabling the program chains to be reproduced one after another in various modes.