Multimedia optical disc facilitating branch reproduction to parental lock sections using reduced control information and a reproducing device for said disc

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PATENT NO 5915067
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08699531

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A multimedia disc made up of a video data storage region and a management information storage region, the video data storage region storing a plurality of video data sequences, each video data sequence having a plurality of video segments of a reproduction period which are recorded in an interleaved manner with a plurality of audio samples, wherein a plurality of sub-pictures and a plurality of control procedures and one audio sample and one sub-picture are reproduced simultaneously with a video segment and wherein each control procedure indicates one video data sequence as a branch address which reflects an interactive operation of a reproduction device during reproduction of a current video data sequence, the management information storage region storing management information comprised of group information which shows which video data sequences have been grouped together to compose a group for which only one of the composing video data sequences is reproduced, a plurality of level identifiers, each of which is assigned exclusively to only one video data sequence in a same group and branch information which indicates, for an arbitrary video data sequence, a video data sequence to be reproduced after termination of reproduction of the arbitrary video data sequence.

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MATSUSHITA ELECTTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO LTD1006 OAZA KADOMA KADOMA-SHI OSAKA-FU

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fukushima, Yoshihisa Osaka, JP 202 8241
Kozuka, Masayuki Neyagawa, JP 400 10892
Miwa, Katsuhiko Osaka, JP 52 2612
Murase, Kaoru Ikoma-gun, JP 155 4685
Nonomura, Tomoyuki Osaka, JP 17 977
Yamauchi, Kazuhiko Neyagawa, JP 66 3265

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