Video reproducing device

• US 7,920,773 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2006
• Issued: 04/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kitazume, Akira, Oshikiri, Masato, Uzawa, Takehiro, Takata, Haruki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hasan; Syed Y
• Application Number:
  US11/482,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20070031115A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,730 Days
• Field of Search: 386/95, 386/46, 386/69, 386/96, 386/126, 386/E5.001, 386/E5.024, 386/E5.064, 386/E5.072, 386/E9.013, 386/E9.04, 348/149, 348/231.9, 348/234, 348/E5.002, 348/E5.007, 348/E7.061, 348/E7.069, 348/E7.087, 369/30.03, 707/E17.028, 715/723, G9B/20.009, G9B/20.14, G9B/27.012, G9B/27.019, G9B/27.029, G9B/27.047, G9B/27.05, G9B/27.051
• US Class Current: 386/247
• 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

The present invention provides a video reproducing device which provides a function of reproducing a still image file and a moving image file recorded onto a recording medium in plural formats so that a user can easily identify a matched statuses of the files in the video reproducing device and can select and operate a target file as well as a control method therefor. The present invention displays an index screen in which thumbnails of a still image file and a moving image file in plural formats read from a recording medium are arrayed and further displays icons for clarifying a match relation between the video reproducing device and the files.

Claims

1. A video reproducing device comprising:

an interface unit configured to be connectable to a recording medium to be input a still image file and/or a moving image file recorded in the recording medium; and

a processing unit which reproduces the still image file and/or the moving image file input to the interface unit to display on a display unit,

wherein the processing unit can generate a first index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the still image files and a second index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the moving image files and can display them on the display unit, and

a background image of the first or second index screen includes a horizontal stripe pattern narrower than a pitch between the thumbnail images in a vertical direction.

2. The video reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein an average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled in accordance with an average brightness level of the thumbnail images displayed on the first or second index screen.

3. The video reproducing device according to claim 2, wherein the average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled to be ±

10% or below of the average brightness level of the thumbnail images.

4. A video reproducing device comprising:

an interface unit configured to be connectable to a recording medium to be input a still image file and/or a moving image file recorded in the recording medium; and

a processing unit which reproduces the still image file and/or the moving image file input to the interface unit to display on a display unit,

wherein the processing unit can generate a first index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the still image files and a second index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the moving image files and can display them on the display unit, and

a background image of the first or second index screen includes, between thumbnail images adjacent to each other in a vertical direction, a horizontal stripe pattern including a plurality of horizontal stripes which are each narrower vertically than a pitch between the thumbnail images in a vertical direction.

5. The video reproducing device according to claim 4, wherein an average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled in accordance with an average brightness level of the thumbnail images displayed on the first or second index screen.

6. The video reproducing device according to claim 5, wherein the average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled to be ±

10% or below of the average brightness level of the thumbnail images.

7. A video reproducing device comprising:

an interface unit configured to be connectable to a recording medium to be input a still image file and/or a moving image file recorded in the recording medium; and

a processing unit which reproduces the still image file and/or the moving image file input to the interface unit to display on a display unit,

wherein the processing unit can generate a first index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the still image files and a second index screen showing a listing of a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the moving image files and can display them on the display unit, and

a background image of the first or second index screen includes, between thumbnail images adjacent to each other in a vertical direction, a horizontal stripe pattern including a plurality of horizontal stripes which are each narrower vertically than a pitch between the thumbnail images in a vertical direction, where the horizontal stripe pattern includes at least one horizontal stripe which is wider vertically than another horizontal stripe of the horizontal stripe pattern.

8. The video reproducing device according to claim 7, wherein an average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled in accordance with an average brightness level of the thumbnail images displayed on the first or second index screen.

9. The video reproducing device according to claim 8, wherein the average brightness level of the background image including the horizontal stripe pattern is controlled to be ±

10% or below of the average brightness level of the thumbnail images.