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Still picture reproduction system that allows skip retrieval

  • US 5,604,512 A
  • Filed: 12/21/1994
  • Issued: 02/18/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A still picture reproduction system for displaying a plurality of still pictures recorded on a recording medium, said system comprising:

  • an order designator for designating an order in which said still pictures are to be displayed so as to form a predetermined picture order and for organizing said pictures into a plurality of separate series of pictures in which each one of said series contains a different pre-defined ordered set of said pictures, thereby forming a succession of adjacent series;

    a selector havinga series selection mode in which the selector, in response to an external request, selects one of said plurality of series adjacent to a current one of said plurality of series wherein only one still picture in said one adjacent series is chosen to produce a single designated picture, anda picture selection mode in which the selector selects a next successive one of the still pictures in said one series as the designated picture;

    a reproducer for sequentially reproducing successive ones of the designated pictures from said recording medium so as to generate a corresponding plurality of reproduced pictures;

    a plurality of memories for sequentially storing respective ones of the reproduced pictures;

    a memory selector for selecting and reading out any of the reproduced pictures stored in said memories so as to provide an accessed picture; and

    a display for displaying the accessed picture,wherein said order designator has an automatic mode in which the order designator instructs the memory selector to select and read out each of the reproduced pictures stored in said memories in accordance with said predetermined picture order and at corresponding predetermined timings, and a manual mode in which the order designator instructs the memory selector to select and read out a corresponding one of the reproduced pictures stored in said memories each time said external request occurs.

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