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Still picture reproduction system that allows skip

  • US 5,838,301 A
  • Filed: 10/30/1996
  • Issued: 11/17/1998
  • 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 reproducing the designated picture from said recording medium so as to generate a reproduced picture; and

    a display, responsive to said reproducing means, for displaying the reproduced picture.

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