Information storage medium having recorded thereon av data including meta data with representative title information, apparatus for reproducing av data from the information storage medium, and method of searching for the meta data

Abstract

An information storage medium having recorded thereon audio/video (AV) data including meta data with representative title information, and a method and apparatus for reproducing the AV data from the information storage medium, wherein the information storage medium having recorded thereon AV data including meta data includes storage medium information about the AV data recorded on the information storage medium and title information about at least one title constituting the AV data. The title information includes representative title information that designates at least one of the titles as a representative title.

1 . An information storage medium having recorded thereon audio/video (AV) data including meta data, the information storage medium comprising: 
 storage medium information about the AV data recorded on the information storage medium; and    title information of at least one title constituting the AV data,    wherein the title information includes representative title information that designates at least one of the titles as a representative title.    
   
   
       2 . The information storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the information storage medium is an optical disc and the storage medium information is disc information about the AV data recorded on the optical disc.  
   
   
       3 . The information storage medium of  claim 2 , wherein a plurality of items of the title information is included in the optical disc, and at least one of the titles is designated as the representative title.  
   
   
       4 . The information storage medium of  claim 2 , wherein the disc information and the title information have a link by which they refer to each other.  
   
   
       5 . The information storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the title information includes the representative title information and general title information, and the representative title information is structurally placed higher than the general title information and includes the general title information connected using a sub link.  
   
   
       6 . The information storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the title information includes the representative title information and general title information; the representative title information is structurally placed at the same level as the general title information; and the representative title has a different ID to a general title.