Patent ID: 6351600
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An electronic image reproducing apparatus which reproduces an image and a sound from a recording medium on which the image and the sound concerned with the image are respectively recorded in an image data area and a sound data area, said electronic image reproducing apparatus comprising:an image reproducing means for reproducing a first image from the image data area of the recording medium; an address detecting means for detecting an address which indicates the sound data area and which is recorded in the image data area; a sound reproducing means for reproducing the sound data in the sound data area related to the address as a first sound at a time that the address is detected by the address detecting means; a time period detecting means for detecting that a constant time period elapsed when the address detecting means does not detect the address, wherein the image reproducing means reproduces a second image in response to a detection by the time period detecting means, and wherein the address is a starting address of the sound data area in which the sound data is written.