US 7,321,718 B2
Method for generating additional information for guaranteeing seamless playback between data streams, recording medium storing the information, and recording editing and/or playback apparatus using the same
Sung-wook Park, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Seong-jin Moon, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Bong-gil Bak, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Jung-kwon Heo, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Oct. 05, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/242,887.
Application 11/242887 is a continuation of application No. 09/461292, filed on Dec. 15, 1999, granted, now 6,996,327.
Claims priority of application No. 98-55500 (KR), filed on Dec. 16, 1998; and application No. 99-840 (KR), filed on Jan. 14, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2006/0029366 A1, Feb. 09, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/91 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 386—95  [386/112] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recording medium readable by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus permitting seamless reproduction by the apparatus of data stream data recorded on the recording medium based on arrival time information for the data stream data, the medium comprising:
a first area including a plurality of data streams including packet data to which information on the arrival time of the respective packet data is added; and
a second area including data stream information including seamless information and/or seamless time control information, the apparatus using the seamless information to determine whether the apparatus seamlessly reproduces a corresponding data stream after playback of a preceding data stream, and the apparatus using the seamless time control information to determine an output time at which the apparatus is controlled to output the corresponding data stream being seamlessly reproduced,
wherein:
the seamless time control information includes a reference time, offset information and/or gap length information, with the reference time being based on arrival times of packet data of the preceding data stream, and
the apparatus uses the reference time to determine the output time at which the apparatus outputs a first packet data of the corresponding data stream being seamlessly reproduced by the apparatus.