Method for offering selection point number to recording image and image reproducing apparatus thereof

• US 20060120690A1
• Filed: 08/17/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sung-youn
• Application Number:
  US11/205,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20060120690A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• 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

Abstract

Provided are a method for offering a selection point number to a recording image and an image reproducing apparatus thereof. The method includes: respectively assigning selection point numbers to the selection points of the recorded image; and displaying information as to the selection points and the selection point numbers assigned to the selection points on an image to be reproduced.

Claims

1. A method for offering selection point numbers to an image recorded on a recording medium, comprising:

respectively assigning selection point numbers to selection points of the recorded image; and

overlapping information as to the selection points and the selection point numbers assigned to the selection points on an image to be reproduced.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selection point numbers are respectively assigned to the selection points based on temporal order of the selection points.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

if a new selection point is added between existing selection points, assigning a selection point number to the new selection point based on temporal order of the existing selection points and the new selection point and adjusting selection point numbers assigned to the existing selection points.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein still images of the selection points as information as to the selection points are overlapped as thumbnail images.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

inputting a selection point number; and

overlapping as information as to the selection points an image between an input point that is a selection point to which the input selection point number is assigned and a next point that is a selection point to which a selection point number next to the input selection point number is assigned as a thumbnail image.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein some still images of still images between the input point and the next point as the information as to the selection points are alternately overlapped as thumbnail images.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein some still images of still images between the input point and the next point as the information as to the selection points are alternately overlapped regardless of temporal order.

8. An image reproducing apparatus comprising:

a display information matching unit that overlaps predetermined information on an image to be reproduced; and

a controller that controls the display information matching unit to respectively assign selection point numbers to selection points of an image recorded on a recording medium and to overlap information as to the selection points and selection point numbers assigned to the selection points on the image to be reproduced.

9. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller respectively assigns the selection point numbers to the selection points based on temporal order of the selection points.

10. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 9, wherein if a new selection point is added between existing selection points, the controller assigns a selection point number to the new selection point and adjusts the selection point numbers assigned to the existing selection points based on temporal order of the existing selection points and the new selection point.

11. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the display information matching unit to overlap still images of the selection points as information as to the selection points as thumbnail images.

12. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a manipulator inputting a selection point number,

wherein the controller controls the display information matching unit to overlap as information as to the selection point numbers an image between an input point that is a selection point to which the selection point number input via the manipulator is assigned and a next point that is a selection point to which a selection point number next to the input selection point number is assigned as a thumbnail image.

13. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the controller controls the display information matching unit to alternately overlap some still images of still images between the input point and the next point as to the information as to the selection points as thumbnail images.

14. The image reproducing apparatus of claim 12, wherein the controller controls the display information matching unit to alternately overlap some still images of still images between the input point and the next point as to the information as to the selection points as thumbnail images regardless of temporal order.