Moving image reproduction apparatus and method

• US 20040081429A1
• Filed: 10/16/2003
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sato, Tsuneo, Sugano, Yoshio
• Granted Patent: US 7,574,104 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/69
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence

Abstract

The digital camera photographs a moving image to record moving image data in an internal or an external memory. Plural frame images as index images are extracted from the moving image. A display area in an LCD is divided into plural index frames for displaying the index images. The number of the index frames is determined in accordance with the number of the index images, so that all of the index images are displayed at the same time. The moving image is reproduced from the scene corresponding to the selected index image.

Claims

1. An apparatus for reproducing a moving image having a plurality of frame images, the apparatus comprising:

a moving image processing device for extracting the frame images as index images from the moving image at regular intervals;

a first display device for displaying the index images in a divided display area, the first display device changing the number to divide the display area in accordance with the number of the index images; and

a controller to start reproduction of the moving image from the scene corresponding to a selected index image.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display device displaying all index images at the same time.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the moving image processing device changes the interval to extract the frame images in accordance with the number of the index images.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display device displays the index images and the moving image at the same time.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second display device to display the moving image.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a photography device to take a subject image continuously to obtain the moving image.

7. A method for reproducing a moving image with a plurality of frame images, the method comprising the steps of:

extracting the frame images as index images from the moving image at regular intervals;

displaying the index images in a divided display area of a first display device, the first display device changing the number to divide the display area in accordance with the number of the index images; and

starting reproduction of the moving image from the scene corresponding to a selected index image.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the first display device displaying all index images at the same time.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein the interval to extract the frame images changes in accordance with the number of the index images.

10. A method according to claim 7, wherein the first display device displays the index images and the moving image at the same time.

11. A method according to claim 7, wherein the moving image is reproduced in a second display device.