Patent ID: 6311013
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
Signal reproducing apparatus for use with a record medium on which images observed from different angles are recorded as coded image data comprising:reading means for reading said coded image data from said record medium to recover said different angles of images;decoding means for decoding the image data corresponding to said angles, as read by said reading means;decoding storage means for storing said decoded image data corresponding to said angles, one angle at a time;display storage means having plural storage regions, each storage region being operable to store image data corresponding to a respective angle and from which the respective angle image is displayed at an associated region of an image display device; andcontrol means for reading and contracting said coded image data stored in said decoding storage means and writing the contracted image data of a particular one of said angles into a predetermined storage region of said display storage means, thereby enabling the image data stored in said predetermined storage region and corresponding to said particular angle to be displayed at a predetermined, associated region of said image display device, whereby contracted images at said plural angles are displayed on said image display device simultaneously;wherein said coded image data is intra-frame and inter-frame predictive image data corresponding to images at plural angles read from said record medium, and said decoding storage means comprises at least two decoding storage units, each for storing frames of said intra-frame or inter-frame image data following decoding thereof, to enable simultaneous reproduction of said contracted images at plural angles in both forward and reverse directions.