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Machine-readable data medium having interactive reproduction procedures with prohibition information, a reproduction apparatus and method of interacting

Patent 6181871 Issued on January 30, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject October 4, 2019. 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. 412451 filed on 10/04/1999

US Classes:

386/95, Having another signal386/125Using disc

Examiners

Primary: Nguyen, Huy

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 607904 EP. 07/12/1994
  • 687109 EP. 12/12/1995
  • 738078 EP. 10/12/1996
  • 746162 EP. 12/12/1996
  • 5-307373 JP. 11/12/1993
  • 8-140033 JP. 05/12/1996
  • 8-339663 JP. 12/12/1996
  • 247360 TW. 05/12/1995
  • 9512276 WO. 05/12/1995

International Class

H04N 005/76

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-03-29 JP

Abstract

A multimedia optical disc comprising a data area for storing at least one object that has sub-picture data and moving picture data, wherein the data area includes a plurality of small areas, each of which includes a first sub-area and a second sub-area, with the object in the data area being stored over consecutive small areas; the first sub-area stores the moving picture data having a certain time period and the sub-picture data being reproduced at the same timing as the moving picture data, the sub-picture data being a menu image which includes a plurality of buttons for showing menu items for display; and the second sub-area stores control information including button control data for responding to a user's operation applied onto a menu image reproduced in the first sub-area in the same small area and auxiliary control data for substituting the user's operation applied onto the menu.

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